Melanoma {MASS}R Documentation

Survival from Malignant Melanoma

Description

The Melanoma data frame has data on 205 patients in Denmark with malignant melanoma.

Usage

data(Melanoma)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

time
survival time in days, possibly censored
status
1 died from melanoma, 2 alive, 3 dead from other causes
sex
1 = male, 2 = female
age
age in years
year
of operation
thickness
tumour thickness in mm
ulcer
1 = presence, 0 = absence

Source

P. K. Andersen, O. Borgan, R. D. Gill, and N. Keiding (1993) Statistical Models based on Counting Processes. Springer.


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