| nutritionCancer {syllogi} | R Documentation |
Nutrition Cancer Study
Description
Data.frame
Usage
data(nutritionCancer)
Format
The data frame has 50 rows and 6 variables:
- id
ID number of each patient.
- age
The age of the patient in years.
- length
The duration or time in months the patient has had breast cancer.
- serving
The number of servings the patient eats of fruits and vegetables in a typical day.
- familyHistory
Does or did any blood relatives (i.e. mother, grandmother, aunt, etc.) have or had breast cancer?
- stage
The stage of the cancer: 0-non-invasive to IV-very invasive or "advanced" cancer.
Details
Fictitious data set for teaching purposes. The fictitious scenario:
The purpose of a medical study is to examine the relationship between eating fruits and vegetables and breast cancer. To study the relationship, 1500 caucasian women with breast cancer were randomly selected from the list of cancer patients in the U.S. The first 50 patients have been measured.
References
Fictitious data set
Examples
data("nutritionCancer", package='syllogi')
str(nutritionCancer)