graft.vs.host {ISwR}R Documentation

Graft versus host disease

Description

The gvhd data frame has 37 rows and 7 columns. It contains data from patients receiving a nondepleted allogenic bone marrow transplant, with the purpose of finding variables associated with the development of acute graft-versus-host disease.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

pnr
a numeric vector. Patient number.
rcpage
a numeric vector. Age of recipient (years).
donage
a numeric vector. Age of donor (years).
type
a numeric vector, type of leukaemia coded 1: AML, 2: ALL, 3: CML for acute myeloid, acute lymphatic, and chronic myeloid leukaemia.
preg
a numeric vector code, indicating whether donor has been pregnant. 0: no, 1: yes.
index
a numeric vector giving an index of mixed epidermal cell-lymphocyte reactions.
gvhd
a numeric vector code, graft versus host disease. 0: no, 1: yes.
time
a numeric vector. Follow-up time
dead
a numeric vector code 0: no (censored), 1: yes

Source

D.G. Altman (1991), Practical Statistics for Medical Research, Exercise 12.3, Chapman & Hall.

Examples

data(graft.vs.host)
plot(jitter(gvhd,0.2)~index,data=graft.vs.host)

[Package ISwR version 1.0-6 Index]