pcancer: Prostate Cancer Data
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Prostate Cancer Data
Description
Data, which come from a study by Stamey et al. (1989), examining the
correlation between the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and
various clinical measures in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy.
Usage
pcancer
Format
A data frame with 97 rows and 9 variables:
- lcavol
log(cancer volume (cm^3))
- lweight
log(prostate weight (g))
- age
age of the patient
- lbph
log(amount of benign prostatic hyperplasia (cm^2))
- svi
presence of seminal vesicle invasion (1=yes, 0=no)
- lcp
log(capsular penetration (cm))
- gleason
Gleason score
- pgg45
percentage of Gleason scores four of five
- lpsa
log(PSA (ng/mL))
Source
https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/datasets/prostate.data
References
Stamey, T. A., Kabalin, J. N., McNeal, J. E., Johnstone, I. M., Freiha, F., Redwine,
E. A., and Yang, N. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of
adenocarcinoma of the prostate. ii. radical prostatectomy treated patients. The Journal
of urology, 141(5):1076-1083.
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Prostate Cancer Data
Description
Data, which come from a study by Stamey et al. (1989), examining the correlation between the level of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and various clinical measures in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy.
Usage
pcancer
Format
A data frame with 97 rows and 9 variables:
- lcavol
log(cancer volume (cm^3))
- lweight
log(prostate weight (g))
- age
age of the patient
- lbph
log(amount of benign prostatic hyperplasia (cm^2))
- svi
presence of seminal vesicle invasion (1=yes, 0=no)
- lcp
log(capsular penetration (cm))
- gleason
Gleason score
- pgg45
percentage of Gleason scores four of five
- lpsa
log(PSA (ng/mL))
Source
https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/datasets/prostate.data
References
Stamey, T. A., Kabalin, J. N., McNeal, J. E., Johnstone, I. M., Freiha, F., Redwine, E. A., and Yang, N. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. ii. radical prostatectomy treated patients. The Journal of urology, 141(5):1076-1083.
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