Kidney infection data

Description

Times of infection from the time to insertion of the catheter for 38 kindey patients using portable dialysis equipment

Format

A data frame with 76 observations on the following 9 variables.

time

a numeric vector. Time to infection from the insertion of catheter

event

a numeric vector. 1: time of infection 0: time of censuring

age

a numeric vector. Age of the patient at the time of infection

sex

a numeric vector. Sex of the patient 0: male 1:female

disease

a numeric vector. Type of disease

dis1

a numeric vector. Dummy variable to codify the disease type.

dis2

a numeric vector. Dummy variable to codify the disease type.

dis3

a numeric vector. Dummy variable to codify the disease type.

ID

a numeric vector. Patient code.

References

McGilchrist and C.W. Aisbett (1991), Regression with frailty in survival analysis, Biometrics,vol.47,pages 461–166.

D.J. Spiegelhalter and A. Thomas and N.G. Best and W.R. Gilks (1995) BUGS: Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs sampling, Version 0.50., MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridre, England.