The lungcancer data frame has 241 rows and 3 columns. The data
were gathered gathered from a case-control study, conducted at the
Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota), which included 140 controls and
101 lung cancer cases; only woman have been enrolled in the study.
lungcancerThis data frame contains the following columns:
marker: square root of sEGFR levels (soluble isoform of the epidermal growth factor receptor).
status:
disease status, with 1 identifying lung cancer cases and
0 identifying controls.
pre:
premonopausal indicator, with 1 identifying premonopausal
women.
age: age in years.
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