Hastie et al. (2001) describe a cancer research study that attempted to associate prostate specific antigenand and a number of prognostic measures in mean with advanced prostate cancer.
Data in the experiment were collected from 97 men who were about to undergo radial prostectomies.
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data(prostate)
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Kutner, M. H., Nachtsheim, C. J., Neter, J., and W. Li (2005) Applied linear statistical models, 5th edition. McGraw-Hill, Boston.
References
Hastie, T., R. Tibshirani, and J. Friedman (2009) The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition. Springer.