Prostate: Prostate data

Description Usage Format References Examples

Description

These data come from a study that examined the correlation between the level of prostate specific antigen and a number of clinical measures in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy. The data set has been copied from library lasso2.

Usage

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Format

It is data frame with 97 rows and 9 columns.

lcavol

log(cancer volume)

lweight

log(prostate weight)

age

age

lbph

log(benign prostatic hyperplasia amount)

svi

seminal vesicle invasion

lcp

log(capsular penetration)

gleason

Gleason score

pgg45

percentage Gleason scores 4 or 5

lpsa

log(prostate specific antigen)

References

Stamey, T. et al. (1989) Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate: II. radical prostatectomy treated patients, Journal of Urology, 141:1076-1083

Examples

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