genridge (version 0.7.0)

prostate: Prostate Cancer Data

Description

Data to examine 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.

Format

A data frame with 97 observations on the following 10 variables.

lcavol

log cancer volume

lweight

log prostate weight

age

in years

lbph

log of the amount of benign prostatic hyperplasia

svi

seminal vesicle invasion

lcp

log of capsular penetration

gleason

a numeric vector

pgg45

percent of Gleason score 4 or 5

lpsa

response

train

a logical vector

Details

This data set came originally from the (now defunct) ElemStatLearn package.

The last column indicates which 67 observations were used as the "training set" and which 30 as the test set, as described on page 48 in the book.

Examples

data(prostate)
str( prostate )
cor( prostate[,1:8] )
prostate <- prostate[, -10]

prostate.mod <- lm(lpsa ~ ., data=prostate)
vif(prostate.mod)

py <- prostate[, "lpsa"]
pX <- data.matrix(prostate[, 1:8])
pridge <- ridge(py, pX, df=8:1)
pridge

plot(pridge)
pairs(pridge)
traceplot(pridge)
traceplot(pridge, X="df")