surg: Intestinal surgery data

Description Usage Format Source

Description

Data involves the number of malignant lymph nodes removed during intestinal surgery for k=844 cancer patients. For each patient, n is the total number of satellite nodes removed during surgery from a patient and y is the number of malignant nodes.

Usage

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data("surg")

Format

A data frame of (y_i, n_i) for i = 1,...,844.

y

number of malignant lymph nodes removed from the i^{th} patient

n

total number of lymph nodes removed from the i^{th} patient

Source

Efron, B., 2016. "Empirical Bayes deconvolution estimates," Biometrika, 103(1), pp. 1-20.


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