Longitudinal measurements of two Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)-based biomarkers for 71 prostate cancer cases and 70 controls.
psaThe psa data frame has 683 rows and 6 columns:
idpatient id.
marker1total PSA.
marker2ratio of free total PSA.
statusdisease status of each subject, with 1 identifying
subjects diagnosed with prostate cancer.
ageage in years.
ttime prior to diagnosis.
The data were gathered from the Beta-Carotone and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET)---a lung cancer prevention trial, conducted at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center. Further details on this study can be found in de Carvalho et al. (2020).
de Carvalho, M., Barney, B. and Page, G. L. (2020) Affinity-based measures of biomarker performance evaluation. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 20, 837-853.