Cushings

From MASS v7.3-53 by Brian Ripley

Diagnostic Tests on Patients with Cushing's Syndrome

Cushing's syndrome is a hypertensive disorder associated with over-secretion of cortisol by the adrenal gland. The observations are urinary excretion rates of two steroid metabolites.

Keywords: datasets

Usage

Cushings

Format

The Cushings data frame has 27 rows and 3 columns:

Tetrahydrocortisone: urinary excretion rate (mg/24hr) of Tetrahydrocortisone.
Pregnanetriol: urinary excretion rate (mg/24hr) of Pregnanetriol.
Type: underlying type of syndrome, coded a (adenoma) , b (bilateral hyperplasia), c (carcinoma) or u for unknown.

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

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