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Survival data on 1620 children with cancer, from Section 9.4 and Table 9.6.

Format

A data frame with 1620 rows and 7 variables:

sex

Sex: 1 = male, 2 = female

race

Race: 1 = white, 2 = nonwhite

age

Age in years

entry

Calendar date of entry in days since July 1, 2001

far

Home distance from treatment center in miles

t

Survival time in days

d

Death indicator: 1 = death observed, 0 = censored

References

Efron, B. and Hastie, T. (2016). Computer Age Statistical Inference. Cambridge University Press, Section 9.4, Table 9.6.

Examples

data(pediatric)
str(pediatric)
#> 'data.frame':	1620 obs. of  7 variables:
#>  $ sex  : int  1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 ...
#>  $ race : int  1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
#>  $ age  : num  2.5 10 18.17 3.92 11.83 ...
#>  $ entry: int  710 1866 2531 2210 875 1419 1264 670 1518 2101 ...
#>  $ far  : int  108 38 100 100 78 0 28 120 73 104 ...
#>  $ t    : int  325 1451 221 2158 760 168 2976 1833 131 2405 ...
#>  $ d    : int  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ...