prostate               package:faraway               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The 'prostate' data frame has 97 rows and 9 columns. A study on 97
     men with prostate cancer who were due to receive a radical
     prostatectomy.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(prostate)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     This data frame contains the following columns:


     '_l_c_a_v_o_l' log(cancer volume)

     '_l_w_e_i_g_h_t' log(prostate weight)


     '_a_g_e' age

     '_l_b_p_h' log(benign prostatic hyperplasia amount)

     '_s_v_i' seminal vesicle invasion

     '_l_c_p' log(capsular penetration)

     '_g_l_e_a_s_o_n' Gleason score

     '_p_g_g_4_5' percentage Gleason scores 4 or 5

     '_l_p_s_a' log(prostate specific antigen)

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     Andrews DF and Herzberg AM (1985): Data. New York: Springer-Verlag

