Cancer: Survival of Breast Cancer Patients
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Survival of Breast Cancer Patients
Description
Three year survival of 474 breast cancer patients according to nuclear grade
and diagnostic center.
Format
A 3-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 3 variables
for 474 observations. The variable names and their levels are:
dim Name Levels
1 Survival "Died", "Surv"
2 Grade "Malignant", "Benign"
3 Center "Boston", "Glamorgan"
Source
Lindsey, J. K. (1995).
Analysis of Frequency and Count Data Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p.
38, Table 2.5.
Whittaker, J. (1990) Graphical Models in Applied Multivariate Statistics New
York: John Wiley and Sons, p. 220.
Examples
data(Cancer)
MASS::loglm(~Survival + Grade + Center, data = Cancer)
vcd::mosaic(Cancer, shade=TRUE)
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Survival of Breast Cancer Patients
Description
Three year survival of 474 breast cancer patients according to nuclear grade and diagnostic center.
Format
A 3-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 3 variables for 474 observations. The variable names and their levels are:
| dim | Name | Levels |
| 1 | Survival | "Died", "Surv" |
| 2 | Grade | "Malignant", "Benign" |
| 3 | Center | "Boston", "Glamorgan" |
Source
Lindsey, J. K. (1995). Analysis of Frequency and Count Data Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 38, Table 2.5.
Whittaker, J. (1990) Graphical Models in Applied Multivariate Statistics New York: John Wiley and Sons, p. 220.
Examples
data(Cancer)
MASS::loglm(~Survival + Grade + Center, data = Cancer)
vcd::mosaic(Cancer, shade=TRUE)
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