R: Rectum carcinoma data set.

rectum.dat {km.ci} | R Documentation

## Rectum carcinoma data set.

### Description

The rectum data contains 205 persons from a study about the survival of patients with rectum carcinoma. Due to the severe course of disease the follow-up was almost perfect in these data and involves hardly any censoring and survivors. The data was used to analyze the behavior of the confidence intervals in data sets with low censoring rate.

### Usage

    data(rectum.dat)

### Format

A data frame with 205 observations on the following 2 variables.

`time`

  Time in months

`status`

  Status at dropout

### Source

Merkel, Mansmann et al.(2001).The prognostic inhomogeneity in pT3 rectal carcinomas. Int J Colorectal Dis.16, 305–306.

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