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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.