Leukemia data
Description
Dataset used in Chapter 3 of Regression Methods in Biostatistics (2nd edition), as distributed on the UCSF companion website. Study design: Randomized acute lymphoblastic leukemia remission trial comparing 6-MP versus placebo. Primary article: Freireich and colleagues (1963), Blood.
Usage
leuk
Format
A data frame with 42 rows and 3 variables:
- time
- weeks in remission
- cens
- Event/censoring indicator (1 = event, 0 = censored).
- group
- treatment group