nutritionCancer: Nutrition Cancer Study

In syllogi: Collection of Data Sets for Teaching Purposes

Nutrition Cancer Study

Description

Data.frame

Usage

data(nutritionCancer)

Format

The data frame has 50 rows and 6 variables:

id

ID number of each patient.

age

The age of the patient in years.

length

The duration or time in months the patient has had breast cancer.

serving

The number of servings the patient eats of fruits and vegetables in a typical day.

familyHistory

Does or did any blood relatives (i.e. mother, grandmother, aunt, etc.) have or had breast cancer?

stage

The stage of the cancer: 0-non-invasive to IV-very invasive or "advanced" cancer.

Details

Fictitious data set for teaching purposes. The fictitious scenario:

The purpose of a medical study is to examine the relationship between eating fruits and vegetables and breast cancer. To study the relationship, 1500 caucasian women with breast cancer were randomly selected from the list of cancer patients in the U.S. The first 50 patients have been measured.

References

Fictitious data set

Examples

data("nutritionCancer", package='syllogi')
str(nutritionCancer)

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