sda (version 1.3.7)

singh2002: Prostate Cancer Study of Singh et al. (2002)

Description

Gene expression data (6033 genes for 102 samples) from the microarray study of Singh et al. (2002).

Usage

data(singh2002)

Arguments

Format

singh2002$x is a 102 x 6033 matrix containing the expression levels. The rows contain the samples and the columns the genes.

singh2002$y is a factor containing the diagnosis for each sample ("cancer" or "healthy").

Details

This data set contains measurements of the gene expression of 6033 genes for 102 observations: 52 prostate cancer patients and 50 healty men.

References

D. Singh et al. 2002. Gene expression correlates of clinical prostate cancer behavior. Cancer Cell 1:203--209.

Efron, B. 2008. Empirical Bayes estimates for large-scale prediction problems. Technical Report, Standford University.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
# load sda library
library("sda")

# load Singh et al (2001) data set
data(singh2002)
dim(singh2002$x) # 102 6033
hist(singh2002$x)
singh2002$y # 2 levels
# }

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