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sorlie: Gene expression data for breast cancer tumors

Description

Gene expression levels of 456 genes for 85 tissue samples. The original data had missing values scattered throughout the matrix. 10-nearest neighbours was used for imputation, as described in Chipman, Hastie and Tibshirani (2003).

Usage

data(sorlie)

Arguments

Format

A matrix with 456 rows and 85 columns.

References

Sorlie, T. et. al. (2001) "Gene expression patterns of breast carcinomas distinguish tumor subclasses with clinical implications", PNAS, 98, 10969-74

Chipman, H., Hastie, T, and Tibshirani, R. (2003) ‘Clustering Microarray Data’ in Statistical Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Data, Terry Speed, Editor, Chapman and Hall, CRC press.