heart {MASS}R Documentation

The Stanford heart transplant data

Description

The Stanford heart transplant data from Kalbfleisch & Prentice.

Format

A data frame with columns:

start
start time in days. Either 0 or time of transplant.
transplant
is this before (0) or after (1) transplantation?
stop
time of transplant or death or censoring (days)
event
death (1) or censored (0)
age
patient's age in years at acceptance, less 48.
year
date of acceptance. Actually days since 1967/10/1 divided by 365.25.
surgery
prior surgery (0 = no, 1 = yes).
id
Patient's ID

Source

Kalbfleisch, J.D. and Prentice R.L. (1980) The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data.