LAG {CopulaREMADA}

The lymphangiography data

Description

Data on 17 studies of lymphangiography (LAG) for the diagnosis of lymph node metastasis in women with cervical cancer, one of three imaging techniques in the meta-analysis in Scheidler et al. (1997). Diagnosis of metastatic disease by LAG is based on the presence of nodal-filling defects.

Usage

data(LAG)

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 4 variables.

TP

the number of true positives

FN

the number of false negatives

FP

the number of false positives

TN

the number of true negatives

References

Scheidler, J., H. Hricak, K. K. Yu, L. Subak, and M. R. Segal. (1997) Radiological evaluation of lymph node metastases in patients with cervical cancer: A meta-analysis. Journal of the American Medical Association, 278, 1096–1101.