hohnloser {maxstat}R Documentation

Left ventricular ejection fraction of patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias.

Description

A data frame with the left ventricular ejection fraction of patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias including recurrence-free month and censoring.

Usage

data(hohnloser)

Format

EF
left ventricular ejection in percent
month
recurrence-free month
cens
censoring: 0 cencored, 1 not censored

The data used here is published in Table 1 of Lausen and Schumacher (1992).

Source

The data was first published by Hohnloser et al. (1987), the data used here is published in Table 1 of Lausen and Schumacher (1992).

References

Hohnloser, S.H., Raeder, E.A., Podrid, P.J., Graboys, T.B. and Lown, B. (1987), Predictors of antiarrhythmic drug efficacy in patients with malignant ventricular tachyarrhythmias. American Heart Journal 114, 1–7

Lausen, B. and Schumacher, M. (1992), Maximally Selected Rank Statistics. Biometrics 48, 73–85

Examples


data(hohnloser)

# limiting distribution

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser, 
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="Lau92")

# with integer valued scores for comparison

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser, 
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="Lau92", iscores=TRUE)

# improved Bonferroni inequality

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="Lau94")

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="Lau94", iscores=TRUE)

# small sample solution by Hothorn & Lausen

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="HL")

# normal approximation

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="exactGauss")

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="exactGauss", iscores=TRUE)

# conditional Monte-Carlo

maxstat.test(Surv(month, cens) ~ EF, data=hohnloser,
smethod="LogRank", pmethod="condMC", B = 9999)


[Package maxstat version 0.7-12 Index]