A data frame of 488 liver cirrhosis patients from a randomized clinical trial concerning prednisone treatment in these patients. The dataset is in long format. The included variables are
Patient identification number
Starting state
Receiving state
Transition number
Starting time
Transition time
Status variable; 1=transition, 0=censored
Treatment; factor with levels "Placebo", "Prednisone"
A data frame, see data.frame.
This data was kindly provided by Per Kragh Andersen. It was introduced in Andersen, Borgan, Gill & Keiding (1993), Example 1.3.12, and used as illustration for computation of transition probabilities in multi-state models, see Sections IV.4 (Example IV.4.4) and VII.2 (Example VII.2.10).
Andersen PK, Borgan O, Gill RD, Keiding N (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. Springer, New York.