heart                  package:MASS                  R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The Stanford heart transplant data from Kalbfleisch & Prentice. A
     data frame.

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

   start: start time in days. Either 0 or time of transplant. 

transplant: is this before (0) or after (1) transplantation? 

    stop: time of transplant or death or censoring (days) 

   event: death (1) or censored (0) 

     age: patient's age in years at acceptance, less 48. 

    year: date of acceptance. Actually days since 1967/10/1 divided by
          365.25. 

 surgery: prior surgery (0 = no, 1 = yes). 

      id: Patient's ID 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The components are:

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Kalbfleisch, J.D. and Prentice R.L. (1980) The Statistical
     Analysis of Failure Time Data.

