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Survival Analysis in R Using the survival Package

In this session of the BTEP Coding Club, Duncan Donohue, PhD, Senior Programmer and Analyst with the Statistical Consulting and Scientific Programming Group (ABCS, NCI at Frederick), showed us how to use the R package survival to apply survival analyses to censored data sets.

R Script and Data files

R script

Access the R script used in this tutorial here.

Data files

  1. Download the clinical data here.
  2. Download the basic research data here.

For a more detailed background on survival analysis as a statistical methodology, check out this related presentation ("Introduction to Survival Analysis") by Alexander Mitrophanov, PhD.