Factors associated with prostate specific antigen

Description

Data from a study by by Stamey et al. (1989) to examine the association between prostate specific antigen (PSA) and several clinical measures that are potentially associated with PSA in men who were about to receive a radical prostatectomy. The variables are as follows:

• lcavol: Log cancer volume

• lweight: Log prostate weight

• age: The man's age

• lbph: Log of the amount of benign hyperplasia

• svi: Seminal vesicle invasion; 1=Yes, 0=No

• lcp: Log of capsular penetration

• gleason: Gleason score

• pgg45: Percent of Gleason scores 4 or 5

• lpsa: Log PSA

Usage

data(prostate)

Format

A data frame with 97 observations on 9 variables

Source

http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/

References

• Hastie T, Tibshirani R, and Friedman J. (2001). The Elements of Statistical Learning. Springer.

• Stamey T, et al. (1989). Prostate specific antigen in the diagnosis and treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. II. Radical prostatectomy treated patients. Journal of Urology, 16: 1076-1083.

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