R: Graft versus host disease

graft.vs.host {ISwR} | R Documentation

## Graft versus host disease

### Description

The `gvhd` data frame has 37 rows and 7 columns. It contains data from patients receiving a nondepleted allogenic bone marrow transplant with the purpose of finding variables associated with the development of acute graft-versus-host disease.

### Usage

    graft.vs.host

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`pnr`

  a numeric vector patient number.

`rcpage`

  a numeric vector, age of recipient (years).

`donage`

  a numeric vector, age of donor (years).

`type`

  a numeric vector, type of leukaemia coded 1: AML, 2: ALL, 3: CML for acute myeloid, acute lymphatic, and chronic myeloid leukaemia.

`preg`

  a numeric vector code indicating whether donor has been pregnant. 0: no, 1: yes.

`index`

  a numeric vector giving an index of mixed epidermal cell-lymphocyte reactions.

`gvhd`

  a numeric vector code, graft-versus-host disease, 0: no, 1: yes.

`time`

  a numeric vector, follow-up time

`dead`

  a numeric vector code, 0: no (censored), 1: yes

### Source

D.G. Altman (1991), Practical Statistics for Medical Research, Exercise 12.3, Chapman & Hall.

### Examples

    plot(jitter(gvhd,0.2)~index,data=graft.vs.host)

[Package ISwR version 2.0-7 Index]