NAME:
French Three Cities Study Data (frtcs.dat)

SIZE: 
697 Observations, 12 Variables

SOURCE: 
French Three Cities Study

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 French Three Cities Study used in exercise 6 
of Chapter 7 of the 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            ID Code                             1 - 697
2               age           Age at enrollment                   years
3               sex           Gender                              1 = male
                                                                  2 = female
4               date0         Date of Baseline                    ddmmmyy
5               sbp0          Systolic Blood Pressure             mmHg
                                at Baseline
6               dbp0          Diastolic Blood Pressure            mmHg
                                at Baseline
7               antihyp0      Use of Antihypertensive Drugs       0 = No
                                at First Follow Up                1 = Yes
8               date1         Date of Baseline                    ddmmmyy
9               sbp1          Systolic Blood Pressure             mmHg
                                at First Follow Up
10              dbp1          Diastolic Blood Pressure            mmHg
                                at First Follow Up
11              antihyp1      Use of Antihypertensive Drugs       0 = No
                                at First Follow Up                1 = Yes
12              date2         Date of Second Follow Up            ddmmmyy
13              sbp2          Systolic Blood Pressure             mmHg
                                at Second Follow Up
14              dbp2          Diastolic Blood Pressure            mmHg
                                at Second Follow Up
15              antihyp2      Use of Antihypertensive Drugs       0 = No
                                at Second Follow Up               1 = Yes
16              date_event    Date of Event or                    ddmmmyy
                                End of Follow Up
17              censor        Event Indicator                     1 = Event
                                                                  0 = Censor