prostate {MultNonParam}

prostate

Description

221 prostate cancer patients are collected in this data set.

Format

• hosp : Hospital in which the patient is hospitalized.

• stage : stage of the cancer.

• gleason score : used to help evaluate the prognosis of the cancer.

• psa : prostate-specific antigen.

• age : age of the patient.

• advanced : boolean. TRUE if the cancer is advanced.

References

A. V. D'Amico, R. Whittington, S. B. Malkowicz, D. Schultz, K. Blank, G. A. Broderick, J. E. Tomaszewski, A. A. Renshaw, I. Kaplan, C. J. Beard, A. Wein (1998) , Biochemical outcome after radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation therapy, or interstitial radiation therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer, JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 280 969-74.

Examples

data(prostate)
attach(prostate)
plot(age,psa,main="Age and PSA",sub="Prostate Cancer Data",
   xlab="Age (years)",ylab="PSA")