createHaberman: Create Haberman breast cancer survival dataset

In jkrijthe/createdatasets: Download and preprocess common benchmark dataset for use in reproduceable simulation studies

Description

Survival of patients who had undergone surgery for breast cancer

Usage

createHaberman(file = getfilepath("haberman.rds"), write = TRUE,
  read = TRUE)

Arguments

file	character; path/filename to write data file to
write	logical; should the dataset be written to disk for later use? (default: TRUE)
read	logical; should we try to read the dataset from the specified location first? (default: TRUE)

Details

Task: formula(Survival~.)

From UCI: "The dataset contains cases from a study that was conducted between 1958 and 1970 at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital on the survival of patients who had undergone surgery for breast cancer."

Value

The dataset as a data.table

References

Haberman, S. J. (1976). Generalized Residuals for Log-Linear Models, Proceedings of the 9th International Biometrics Conference, Boston, pp. 104-122.

See Also

https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Haberman's+Survival

jkrijthe/createdatasets documentation built on May 19, 2019, 12:44 p.m.