It has obviously been a very long time since I wrote that manual page. I've now updated it with the following which will show up in the next release.
\note{The study is described in Laurie et al. A version of the data set with less follow-up time is used in the paper by Lin.} \references{ JA Laurie, CG Moertel, TR Fleming, HS Wieand, JE Leigh, J Rubin, GW McCormack, JB Gerstner, JE Krook and J Malliard. Surgical adjuvant therapy of large-bowel carcinoma: An evaluation of levamisole and the combination of levamisole and fluorouracil: The North Central Cancer Treatment Group and the Mayo Clinic. J Clinical Oncology, 7:1447-1456, 1989. DY Lin. Cox regression analysis of multivariate failure time data: the marginal approach. Statistics in Medicine, 13:2233-2247, 1994. } Thanks for the prompt. Terry Therneau --------- begin included message ----- Dear R team, dear Prof. Therneau, library(survival) data(colon) ?colon gives me only a very rudimentary source (only a name). Is there a possibility to get a reference to the clinical trial these data are taken from? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.