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duke: Duke breast cancer data

Description

This data set details microarray experiment for breast cancer patients.

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 86 rows and 501 variables, where the first variable is the label of estrogen receptor-positive/negative, and the remaining 500 variables are 500 gene.

Details

The binary variable Status is used to classify the patients into estrogen receptor-positive (y = 0) and estrogen receptor-negative (y = 1). The other variables contain the expression level of the considered genes.

References

M. West, C. Blanchette, H. Dressman, E. Huang, S. Ishida, R. Spang, H. Zuzan, J.A. Olson, Jr., J.R. Marks and Joseph R. Nevins (2001) <doi:10.1073/pnas.201162998> Predicting the clinical status of human breast cancer by using gene expression profiles, Proceedings of the National Accademy of Sciences of the USA, Vol 98(20), 11462-11467.