R Dataset / Package survival / lung
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the lung data set which pertains to NCCTG Lung Cancer Data. The lung data set is found in the survival R package. You can load the lung data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("lung"). This will load the data into a variable called lung. If R says the lung data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("survival") 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 lung R data set. The size of this file is about 6,593 bytes.
NCCTG Lung Cancer Data
Description
Survival in patients with advanced lung cancer from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Performance scores rate how well the patient can perform usual daily activities.
Usage
lung cancer
Format
| inst: | Institution code |
| time: | Survival time in days |
| status: | censoring status 1=censored, 2=dead |
| age: | Age in years |
| sex: | Male=1 Female=2 |
| ph.ecog: | ECOG performance score (0=good 5=dead) |
| ph.karno: | Karnofsky performance score (bad=0-good=100) rated by physician |
| pat.karno: | Karnofsky performance score as rated by patient |
| meal.cal: | Calories consumed at meals |
| wt.loss: | Weight loss in last six months |
Source
Terry Therneau
References
Loprinzi CL. Laurie JA. Wieand HS. Krook JE. Novotny PJ. Kugler JW. Bartel J. Law M. Bateman M. Klatt NE. et al. Prospective evaluation of prognostic variables from patient-completed questionnaires. North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 12(3):601-7, 1994.
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.
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