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Byar: Byar prostate cancer data set.

Description

A data set consisting of variables of mixed type measured on a group of prostate cancer patients.

Usage

data(Byar)

source

Andrews, D.A., Herzberg, A.M. (1985). Data: A collection of Problems from Many Fields for the Student and Research Worker. Springer.

Details

A data set consisting of variables of mixed type measured on a group of prostate cancer patients. Patients have either stage 3 or stage 4 prostate cancer.

References

Byar, D.P. and Green, S.B. (1980). The choice of treatment for cancer patients based on covariate information: applications to prostate cancer. Bulletin du Cancer 67: 477-490. Hunt, L., Jorgensen, M. (1999). Mixture model clustering using the multimix program. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 41: 153-171.

Examples

data(Byar)