R Dataset / Package KMsurv / larynx
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the larynx data set which pertains to data from Section 1.8. The larynx data set is found in the KMsurv R package. You can load the larynx data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("larynx"). This will load the data into a variable called larynx. If R says the larynx data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("KMsurv") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the larynx R data set. The size of this file is about 1,272 bytes.
data from Section 1.8
Description
The larynx
data frame has 90 rows and 5 columns.
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
- stage
-
Stage of disease (1=stage 1, 2=stage2, 3=stage 3, 4=stage 4)
- time
-
Time to death or on-study time, months
- age
-
Age at diagnosis of larynx cancer
- diagyr
-
Year of diagnosis of larynx cancer
- delta
-
Death indicator (0=alive, 1=dead)
Source
Klein and Moeschberger (1997) Survival Analysis Techniques for Censored and truncated data, Springer. Kardaun Stat. Nederlandica 37 (1983), 103-126.
Examples
data(larynx)
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.