Description

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.

Usage

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

lcavol

log(cancer volume)

lweight

log(prostate weight)

age

age

lbph

log(benign prostatic hyperplasia amount)

svi

seminal vesicle invasion

lcp

log(capsular penetration)

gleason

Gleason score

pgg45

percentage Gleason scores 4 or 5

lpsa

log(prostate specific antigen)

Source

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