NCCTG Lung Cancer Data
lung.RdSurvival in patients with advanced lung cancer from the North Central Cancer Treatment Group. Performance scores rate how well the patient can perform usual daily activities.
Format
| inst: | Institution code |
| time: | Survival time in days |
| status: | censoring status 1=censored, 2=dead |
| age: | Age in years |
| sex: | Male=1 Female=2 |
| ph.ecog: | ECOG performance score as rated by the physician. 0=asymptomatic, 1= symptomatic but completely ambulatory, 2= in bed <50% of the day, 3= in bed > 50% of the day but not bedbound, 4 = bedbound |
| ph.karno: | Karnofsky performance score (bad=0-good=100) rated by physician |
| pat.karno: | Karnofsky performance score as rated by patient |
| meal.cal: | Calories consumed at meals |
| wt.loss: | Weight loss in last six months (pounds) |
Note
The usage above assumes that the survival package is attached via
library(survival) or via another package that depends on
survival, e.g., mstate. If not, then either survival::lung
or data(cancer, package="survival") can be used.
The use of 1/2 for alive/dead instead of the usual 0/1 is a historical footnote. For data contained on punch cards, IBM 360 Fortran treated blank as a zero, which led to a policy within the section of Biostatistics to never use "0" as a data value since one could not distinguish it from a missing value. The policy became a habit, as is often the case, and the 1/2 coding rule endured long beyond the demise of punch cards.
Note
The useage above assumes that the survival package is attached via
library(survival) or via another package that depends on
survival, e.g., mstate. If not, then either survival::ovarian
can be used or data(cancer, package="survival").