Data to examine 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.
Usage
data(prostate)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 97 observations on the following 10 variables.
lcavol
log cancer volume
lweight
log prostate weight
age
in years
lbph
log of the amount of benign prostatic hyperplasia
svi
seminal vesicle invasion
lcp
log of capsular penetration
gleason
a numeric vector
pgg45
percent of Gleason score 4 or 5
lpsa
response
train
a logical vector
Details
This data set came originally from the (now defunct) ElemStatLearn package.
The last column indicates which 67 observations were used as the
"training set" and which 30 as the test set, as described on page 48
in the book.