mela.pop {timereg}R Documentation

Melanoma data and Danish population mortality by age and sex

Description

Melanoma data with background mortality of Danish population.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

id
a numeric vector. Gives patient id.
sex
a numeric vector. Gives sex of patient.
start
a numeric vector. Gives the starting time for the time-interval for which the covariate rate is representative.
stop
a numeric vector. Gives the stopping time for the time-interval for which the covariate rate is representative.
status
a numeric vector code. Survival status. 1: dead from melanoma, 0: alive or dead from other cause.
age
a numeric vector. Gives the age of the patient at removal of tumor.
rate
a numeric vector. Gives the population mortality for the given sex and age. Based on Table A.2 in Andersen et al. (1993).

Source

Andersen, P.K., Borgan {O}, Gill R.D., Keiding N. (1993), Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes, Springer-Verlag.

Examples

data(mela.pop)
names(mela.pop)

[Package timereg version 1.1-2 Index]