lungcancer {DATAstudio}

Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Description

The lungcancer data frame has 241 rows and 3 columns. The data were gathered gathered from a case-control study, conducted at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester (Minnesota), which included 140 controls and 101 lung cancer cases; only woman have been enrolled in the study.

Usage

lungcancer

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

marker

: square root of sEGFR levels (soluble isoform of the epidermal growth factor receptor).

status

: disease status, with 1 identifying lung cancer cases and 0 identifying controls.

pre

: premonopausal indicator, with 1 identifying premonopausal women.

age

: age in years.

References

Inácio de Carvalho, V., Jara, A. and de Carvalho, M. (2015) Bayesian nonparametric approaches for ROC curve inference. In: Nonparametric Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. Eds R. Mitra and P. Mueller. Cham: Springer.