prostate cancer data

Description

Data with 8 inputs and one output used to illustrate the prediction problem and regression in the textbook of Hastie, Tibshirani and Freedman (2000).

Usage

data(prostate)

Format

A data frame with 97 observations on the following 9 variables.

lcavol

log-cancer volume

lweight

log prostate weight

age

age in years

lbph

log benign prostatic hyperplasia

svi

seminal vesicle invasion

lcp

log of capsular penetration

gleason

Gleason score

pgg45

percent of Gleascores 4/5

lpsa

log of PSA

Details

A study of 97 men with prostate cancer examined the correlation between PSA (prostate specific antigen) and a number of clinical measurements: lcavol,lweight,lbph,svi,lcp,gleason,pgg45

Source

http://www-stat-class.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

References

Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman. (2001). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer

Examples

data(prostate)
lm(lpsa~., data=prostate)