surg {BayesGOF}R Documentation

Intestinal surgery data

Description

Data involves the number of malignant lymph nodes removed during intestinal surgery for k=844k=844 cancer patients. For each patient, nn is the total number of satellite nodes removed during surgery from a patient and yy is the number of malignant nodes.

Usage

data("surg")

Format

A data frame of (yi,ni)(y_i, n_i) for i=1,...,844i = 1,...,844.

y

number of malignant lymph nodes removed from the ithi^{th} patient

n

total number of lymph nodes removed from the ithi^{th} patient

Source

Efron, B., 2016. "Empirical Bayes deconvolution estimates," Biometrika, 103(1), pp. 1-20.


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