pancreas {mable}

Pancreatic Cancer Biomarker Data

Description

Contain sera measurements from 51 control patients with pancreatitis and 90 case patients with pancreatic cancer at the Mayo Clinic with a cancer antigen, CA125, and with a carbohydrate antigen, CA19-9 (Wieand, et al, 1989)

Usage

data(pancreas)

Format

A data frame with 141 rows and 3 variables.

• ca199. CA19-9 levels

• ca125. CA125 levels

• status. 0 = controls (non-cancer) and 1 = cases (cancer).

Source

Wieand, S., Gail, M. H., James, B. R., and James, K.L. (1989). A family of nonparametric statistics for comparing diagnostic markers with paired or unpaired data. Biometrika, 76, 585–592.

References

Wieand, S., Gail, M. H., James, B. R., and James, K.L. (1989). A family of nonparametric statistics for comparing diagnostic markers with paired or unpaired data. Biometrika, 76, 585–592.

Examples

data(pancreas)