Prostate cancer data of American men from a subset of SEER Data

SUMMARY:

DATA DESCRIPTION:

ARGUMENTS:

region
patients from seven geographical regions
record
record id within each region
group
distinct age groups over the seven regions
period
three periods correspond to patients who are diagnosed in [1973,1985], [1973,1997] or [1985,1997].
age
ten recodes of patient's age at diagnosis. Each recode refers to a 5-year age group from 40, 45 up to 90.
counts.unc
number of uncensored patients in a period and a category of region and age group
age.unc
average age of uncensored patients in a period and a category of region and age group
time.unc
average survival time (months) of uncensored patients in a period and a category of region and age group
counts.cen
number of censored patients in a period and a category of region and age group
age.cen
average age of censored patients in a period and a category of region and age group
time.cen
average censoring time (months) of censored patients in a period and a category of region and age group

SOURCE:

SEER Program Public-Use CD. National Cancer Institute, DCCPS, Cancer Surveillance Research Program, Cancer Statistics Branch, 2000.

EXAMPLES:

gee.out <- gee(cbind(counts.unc, counts.cen) ~ age + age^2 + as.factor(period) + 

            age * as.factor(period) + age^2 * as.factor(period), cluster = cbind(region, record), 

            family = binomial, link = "logit", variance = "glm.scale", correlation = "independent", 

            data = na.omit(Prostate), control = geeControl(maxit = 100))