prostate.int: Prostate Cancer Clinical Interval Dataset

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Prostate Cancer Clinical Interval Dataset

Description

Interval-valued clinical measurements for 97 prostate cancer patients (training and test sets combined). Contains 9 interval-valued variables from log-transformed cancer volume, weight, age, and other clinical predictors.

Usage

data(prostate.int)

Format

A data frame with 97 observations and 9 interval-valued variables:

• lcavol: Log cancer volume range.

• lweight: Log prostate weight range.

• age: Patient age range.

• lbph: Log benign prostatic hyperplasia amount range.

• svi: Seminal vesicle invasion range.

• lcp: Log capsular penetration range.

• gleason: Gleason score range.

• pgg45: Percentage Gleason scores 4 or 5 range.

• lpsa: Log prostate specific antigen range.

Metadata

Sample size (n)	97
Variables (p)	9
Subject area	Medical
Symbolic format	Interval
Analytical tasks	Regression

Source

Extracted from RSDA package (int_prost_train, int_prost_test).

References

Stamey, T. et al. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. II. Radical prostatectomy treated patients. J. Urology, 141(5), 1076-1083.

Examples

data(prostate.int)

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