The MYEL Data Set: Myelomatosis Patients
The MYEL data set contains survival times for 25 patients diagnosed with myelomatosis (Peto et al. 1977). The patients were randomly assigned to two drug treatments. The entire data set is listed in Output 2.1. These data are used extensively in Chapter 3 to illustrate the LIFETEST procedure and briefly in Chapter 5. The variables are as follows:
| DUR | is time in days from the point of randomization to either death or censoring (which could occur either by loss to follow up or termination of the observation). |
| STATUS | has a value of 1 if dead; it has a value of 0 if censored |
| TREAT | specifies a value of 1 or 2 to correspond to the two treatments. |
| RENAL | has a value of 1 if renal functioning was normal at the time of ... |
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