osteosarcoma: Study of Nonmetastatic Osteosarcoma

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Study of Nonmetastatic Osteosarcoma

Description

Data.frame

Usage

data(osteosarcoma)

Format

The data frame has 8 rows and 5 variables:

lymphocyticInfiltration

Patient has high or low lymphocytic inflitration.

gender

Female (F) or Male (M).

osteoblasticPathology

Patient has osteoblastic pathology yes or no.

diseaseFreeYes

Number of patients that are disease free after three years.

diseaseFreeNo

Number of patients that are not disease free after three years.

Details

A study of nonmetastatic osteosarcoma was done. They recorded if the patient was disease free after three years. They recorded the gender, level of lymphocytic infiltration, and if there is osteoblastic pathology or not. Can the probability of being desease free after 3 years be predicted?

References

A M Goorin, A Perez-Atayde, M Gebhardt, J W Andersen, R H Wilkinson, M J Delorey, H Watts, M Link, N Jaffe, and E Frei 3rd Journal of Clinical Oncology 1987 5:8, 1178-1184

Agresti, A. (2002) Categorical Data Analysis. 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 320-332. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471249688

Examples

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

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