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Prostate: Prostate Cancer Data

Description

These data come from a study that examined the correlation between the level of prostate specific antigen and a number of clinical measures in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy. It is a data frame with 97 rows and 9 columns.

Usage

data("Prostate")

Arguments

format

The data frame has the following components:
  • lcavol: log(cancer volume)
  • lweight: log(prostate weight)
  • age: age
  • lbph: log(benign prostatic hyperplasia amount)
  • svi: seminal vesicle invasion
  • lcp: log(capsular penetration)
  • gleason: Gleason score
  • pgg45: percentage Gleason scores 4 or 5
  • lpsa: log(prostate specific antigen)

source

Stamey, T.A., Kabalin, J.N., McNeal, J.E., Johnstone, I.M., Freiha, F., Redwine, E.A. and Yang, N. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate: II. radical prostatectomy treated patients, Journal of Urology 141(5), 1076--1083.

References

Stamey, T.A., Kabalin, J.N., McNeal, J.E., Johnstone, I.M., Freiha, F., Redwine, E.A. and Yang, N. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate: II. radical prostatectomy treated patients, Journal of Urology, 141(5), 1076--1083. This dataset also appears in the R-package: lasso2. Lokhorst, J., Venables, B. and Turlach, B. (2011). lasso2: L1 contstrained estimation aka 'lasso', published on R CRAN website: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/lasso2/index.html.