

   CChhaannnniinngg HHoouussee DDaattaa

   AArrgguummeennttss::

        sex: A factor for the sex of each resident (`"Male"' or
             `"Female"').

      entry: The residents age (in months) on entry to the cen-
             tre

       exit: The age (in months) of the resident on death,
             leaving the centre or July 1, 1975 whichever event
             occurred first.

       time: The length of time (in months) that the resident
             spent at Channing House.  (`time=exit-entry')

       cens: The indicator of right censoring.  1 indicates
             that the resident died at Channing House, 0 indi-
             cates that they left the house prior to July 1,
             1975 or that they were still alive and living in
             the centre at that date.

   SSUUMMMMAARRYY::

        The `channing' data frame has 462 rows and 5 columns.

        Channing House is a retirement centre in Palo Alto,
        California.  These data were collected between the
        opening of the house in 1964 until July 1, 1975.  In
        that time 97 men and 365 women passed through the cen-
        tre.  For each of these, their age on entry and also on
        leaving or death was recorded.  A large number of the
        observations were censored mainly due to the resident
        being alive on July 1, 1975 when the data was col-
        lected.  Over the time of the study 130 women and 46
        men died at Channing House.  Differences between the
        survival of the sexes, taking age into account, was one
        of the primary concerns of this study.

   DDAATTAA DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN::

        This data frame contains the following columns:

   SSOOUURRCCEE::

        The data were obtained from

        Hyde, J. (1980) Testing survival with incomplete obser-
        vations.  Biostatistics Casebook.  R.G. Miller, B.
        Efron, B.W. Brown and L.E. Moses (editors), 31-46. John
        Wiley.

   OOTTHHEERR RREEFFEERREENNCCEESS::

        Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Meth-
        ods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

