bcw_original: Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original) Data Set

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Breast Cancer Wisconsin (Original) Data Set

Description

Samples arrive periodically as Dr. Wolberg reports his clinical cases. The database therefore reflects this chronological grouping of the data.

Usage

bcw_original

Format

A data frame with 699 observations on the following 11 variables.

• sample_code_number: id number

• clump_thickness: 1 - 10

• uniformity_of_cell_size: 1 - 10

• uniformity_of_cell_shape: 1 - 10

• single_epithelial_cell_size: 1 - 10

• bare_nuclei: 1 - 10

• bland_chromatin: 1 - 10

• normal_nucleoli: 1 - 10

• mitoses: 1 - 10

• class: 2 for benign, 4 for malignant

Details

This grouping information appears immediately below, having been removed from the data itself:

Group	Instances	Date of Collection
1	367	January 1989
2	70	October 1989
3	31	February 1990
4	17	April 1990
5	48	August 1990
6	49	Updated January 1991
7	31	June 1991
8	86	November 1991
Total	699 points	15 July 1992

Note that the results summarized above in Past Usage refer to a dataset of size 369, while Group 1 has only 367 instances. This is because it originally contained 369 instances; 2 were removed.

Source

Dr. William H. Wolberg - Physician University of Wisconsin Hospitals Madison, Wisconsin, USA

References

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/breast-cancer-wisconsin/breast-cancer-wisconsin.data

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