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Remission times (in months) for 128 bladder cancer patients. This is a complete (uncensored) sample widely used in lifetime distribution literature to demonstrate decreasing or right-skewed hazard rates.

Usage

remission

Format

A data frame with 128 rows and 2 columns:

time

Remission time in months

status

Event indicator (1 = event occurred)

Source

Lee, E. T., & Wang, J. W. (2003). Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis (3rd ed.). Wiley.

Examples

data(remission)
# \donttest{
fit <- fit_betadanish(survival::Surv(time, status) ~ 1, data = remission)
#> Warning: The times look recorded on a grid of 0.01. The point-density likelihood treats them as exact, which understates the standard errors. Consider grouped = TRUE.
#> Warning: The fitted correlation between a-hat and c-hat is -0.987, so effectively only the product c*a is identified. Individual estimates of a and c should not be interpreted.
#> Warning: 2 starting point(s) reached a degenerate ridge and were discarded. The reported fit is the best admissible optimum. If this is most of the grid, the four-parameter model is a poor choice for these data.
summary(fit)
#> 
#> Call:
#> fit_betadanish(formula = survival::Surv(time, status) ~ 1, data = remission)
#> 
#> Beta-Danish Distribution Fit
#> Model: Full 4-Parameter Model 
#> 
#>    Estimate Std. Error Lower 95% Upper 95% z value Pr(>|z|)   
#> a  0.686571   0.787152 -0.856248  2.229389  0.8722  0.38309   
#> b  4.078176   1.481508  1.174420  6.981932  2.7527  0.00591 **
#> c  2.196539   2.552985 -2.807311  7.200389  0.8604  0.38958   
#> k  0.082975   0.076454 -0.066875  0.232824  1.0853  0.27779   
#> ---
#> Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1
#> ---
#> Log-Likelihood: -409.9137 
#> AIC: 827.8274  | BIC: 839.2356 
# }