prostate

Hastie et al. (2001) describe a cancer research study that attempted to associate prostate specific antigens and and a number of prognostic measures in the context of advanced prostate cancer.
Data in the experiment were collected from 97 men who were about to undergo radial prostectomies.

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Contains functions from: Aho, K. (2014) Foundational and Applied Statistics for Biologists using R.  CRC/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, FL, ISBN: 978-1-4398-7338-0.

Ken Aho

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prostate function

A data frame with 97 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>PSA</code></dt>
<dd>Serum prostate-specific albumin level (mg/ml).</dd> <dt><code>vol</code></dt>
<dd>Tumor volume (cc).</dd> <dt><code>weight</code></dt>
<dd>Prostate weight (g).</dd> <dt><code>Gleason</code></dt>
<dd>Pathologically determined grade of disease. Summed scores were either 6, 7, or 8 with higher scores indicating worse prognosis.</dd> 
</dl>

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Prostate cancer data — prostate

A data frame with 97 observations on the following 4 variables.<dl>
 <dt><code>PSA</code></dt>
<dd>Serum prostate-specific albumin level (mg/ml).</dd>

 <dt><code>vol</code></dt>
<dd>Tumor volume (cc).</dd>

 <dt><code>weight</code></dt>
<dd>Prostate weight (g).</dd>

 <dt><code>Gleason</code></dt>
<dd>Pathologically determined grade of disease. Summed scores were either 6, 7, or 8 with higher scores indicating worse prognosis.</dd>

 
</dl>

prostate: Prostate cancer data

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