breast_cancer {ibawds}

Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database

Description

Breast cancer database obtained from the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison from Dr. William H. Wolberg. The data were collected in 8 from 1989 to 1991 and are sorted in chronological order.

Usage

breast_cancer

Format

a tibble with 699 rows and 11 variables. All numerical values are integers in the range 1 to 10.

id

sample code number

clump_thick

clump thickness

unif_cell_size

uniformity of cell size

unif_cell_shape

uniformity of cell shape

marg_adh

marginal adhesion

ep_cell_size

single epithelial cell size

bare_nucl

bare nuclei

bland_chromat

bland chromatin

norm_nucl

normal nucleoli

mitoses

mitoses

class

"benign" (458) or "malignant" (241)

Source

The data is available on the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository.

O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg, Cancer diagnosis via linear programming, SIAM News, Volume 23(5) (1990) 1 & 18.