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Head and neck cancer

Source: R/head-neck-cancer-data.R
head_neck_cancer.Rd

Time-to-event data a randomized clinical trial to compare two therapies for head and neck cancer.51 patients were treated with radiation only and 45 patients treated with radiation plus chemotherapy. The variables are:

Usage

head_neck_cancer

Format

A data frame with 96 observations.

Details

  • Time: time (in days) to recurrence of the cancer.

  • Therapy: treatment applied to the patients.

  • Status: censorship indicators.

References

Khan SA (2018). “Exponentiated Weibull regression for time-to-event data.” Lifetime Data Analysis, 24(2), 328--354. ISSN 1380-7870, doi:10.1007/s10985-017-9394-3 , http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10985-017-9394-3.

Examples

data(head_neck_cancer)
par(mfrow = c(1,2))
hist(head_neck_cancer$Time, main="", xlab="Time (Days)")
plot(head_neck_cancer$Time, xlab = "Patient (subjects)", lty = 3, type="h")