Description

A data frame of 8966 patients transplanted at the EBMT. The included variables are

id

Patient identification number

time

Time in months from transplantation to death or last follow-up

status

Survival status; 0 = censored; 1,...,6 = death due to the following causes: Relapse (1), GvHD (2), Bacterial infections (3), Viral infections (4), Fungal infections (5), Other causes (6)

cod

Cause of death as factor with levels "Alive", "Relapse", "GvHD", "Bacterial", "Viral", "Fungal", "Other"

dissub

Disease subclassification; factor with levels "AML", "ALL", "CML"

match

Donor-recipient gender match; factor with levels "No gender mismatch", "Gender mismatch"

tcd

T-cell depletion; factor with levels "No TCD", "TCD", "Unknown"

year

Year of transplantation; factor with levels "1985-1989", "1990-1994", "1995-1998"

age

Patient age at transplant; factor with levels "<=20", "20-40", ">40"

Format

A data frame, see data.frame.

Source

We acknowledge the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) for making available these data. Disclaimer: these data were simplified for the purpose of illustration of the analysis of competing risks and multi-state models and do not reflect any real life situation. No clinical conclusions should be drawn from these data.

References

Fiocco M, Putter H, van Houwelingen JC (2005). Reduced rank proportional hazards model for competing risks. Biostatistics 6, 465–478.