mclust (version 5.0.2)

thyroid: Thyroid gland data

Description

Data on five laboratory tests administered to a sample of 215 patients. The tests are used to predict whether a patient's thyroid can be classified as euthyroidism (normal thyroid gland function), hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid not producing enough thyroid hormone) or hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid producing and secreting excessive amounts of the free thyroid hormones T3 and/or thyroxine T4). Diagnosis of thyroid operation was based on a complete medical record, including anamnesis, scan, etc..

Usage

data(thyroid)

source

UCI ftp://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/machine-learning-databases/thyroid-disease/

References

Coomans, D., Broeckaert, M. Jonckheer M. and Massart D.L. (1983) Comparison of Multivariate Discriminant Techniques for Clinical Data - Application to the Thyroid Functional State, Meth. Inform. Med. 22, pp. 93-101.

Coomans, D. and I. Broeckaert (1986) Potential Pattern Recognition in Cemical and Medical Decision Making, Research Studies Press, Letchworth, England.