BrainCancer {ISLR2}

Brain Cancer Data

Description

A data set consisting of survival times for patients diagnosed with brain cancer.

Usage

BrainCancer

Format

A data frame with 88 observations and 8 variables:

sex

Factor with levels "Female" and "Male"

diagnosis

Factor with levels "Meningioma", "LG glioma", "HG glioma", and "Other".

loc

Location factor with levels "Infratentorial" and "Supratentorial".

ki

Karnofsky index.

gtv

Gross tumor volume, in cubic centimeters.

stereo

Stereotactic method factor with levels "SRS" and "SRT".

status

Whether the patient is still alive at the end of the study: 0=Yes, 1=No.

time

Survival time, in months.

Source

I. Selingerova, H. Dolezelova, I. Horova, S. Katina, and J. Zelinka. Survival of patients with primary brain tumors: Comparison of two statistical approaches. PLoS One, 11(2):e0148733, 2016. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749663/

References

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2021) An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R, Second Edition, https://www.statlearning.com, Springer-Verlag, New York