mboost (version 0.4-6)

westbc: Breast Cancer Gene Expression

Description

Gene expressions for 7129 genes in 49 breast cancer samples and the status of lymph node involvement.

Usage

data("westbc")

format

An object of class exprSet (see package Biobase).

source

M. West and C. Blanchette and H. Dressman and E. Huang and S. Ishida and R. Spang and H. Zuzan and J. Olson and J. Marks and J. Nevins (2001), Predicting the clinical status of human breast cancer by using gene expression profiles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 11462-11467. http://data.cgt.duke.edu/west.php

Details

A full description of the data can be found in West et al. (2001) and an application of boosted linear models is given by Buhlmann (2006).

References

Peter Buhlmann (2006), Boosting for high-dimensional linear models. The Annals of Statistics, 34.

Peter Buhlmann and Torsten Hothorn (2006), Boosting: A statistical perspective. Submitted manuscript.