NAME: 
Competing Risk Exercise Data (comprisk.dat)

SIZE: 
453 Observations, 6 Variables

REFERENCE:
Hosmer, D.W. and Lemeshow, S. and May, S. (2008) 
Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data: 
Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, NY

DESCRITPTIVE ABSTRACT:
Description of the variables in the competing risk exercise data in the Exercises
at the end of Chapter 9 of reference text.

DISCLAIMER:  
This data is also available at the following Wiley's FTP site: 
ftp//ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/survival

LIST OF VARIABLES: 

Variable	Name		Description           Codes/Values
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1               id              Study ID              1 - 453
2               age             Age                   Years
3               gender          Gender                0 = Male, 
                                                      1 = Female
4               bmi             Body Mass Index       kg/m^2
5               time            Follow Up Time        Days
6               ev_typ          Event Type            1 = CVD
                                                      2 = Other Cause
                                                      0 = Censor