gehan

Function gehan 

Source
pub fn gehan() -> Result<DataFrame, PolarsError>
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§Remission Times of Leukaemia Patients

§Description:

A data frame from a trial of 42 leukaemia patients. Some were treated with the drug 6-mercaptopurine and the rest are controls. The trial was designed as matched pairs, both withdrawn from the trial when either came out of remission.

§Usage:

gehan

§Format:

This data frame contains the following columns:

  • ‘pair’ label for pair.
  • ‘time’ remission time in weeks.
  • ‘cens’ censoring, 0/1.
  • ‘treat’ treatment, control or 6-MP.

§Source:

Cox, D. R. and Oakes, D. (1984) Analysis of Survival Data. Chapman & Hall, p. 7. Taken from

Gehan, E.A. (1965) A generalized Wilcoxon test for comparing arbitrarily single-censored samples. Biometrika 52, 203-233.

§References:

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

§Examples:

library(survival)
gehan.surv <- survfit(Surv(time, cens) ~ treat, data = gehan,
 conf.type = "log-log")
summary(gehan.surv)
survreg(Surv(time, cens) ~ factor(pair) + treat, gehan, dist = "exponential")
summary(survreg(Surv(time, cens) ~ treat, gehan, dist = "exponential"))
summary(survreg(Surv(time, cens) ~ treat, gehan))
gehan.cox <- coxph(Surv(time, cens) ~ treat, gehan)
summary(gehan.cox)