breast {randomSurvivalForest}R Documentation

German Breast Cancer Study Group 2

Description

Breast cancer survival data.

Format

A data frame containing:
hormone hormonal therapy: no, yes
age age (in years)
menostat menopausal status: pre=premenopausal, post=postmenopausal
size tumor size (in mm)
grade tumor grade: I < II < III
pnodes number of positive nodes
progrec progesterone receptor (in fmol)
estrec estrogen receptor (in fmol)
time recurrence free survival time (in days)
cens censoring status: 0=censored, 1=recurrence

References

M. Schumacher, G. Basert, H. Bojar, K. Huebner, M. Olschewski, W. Sauerbrei, C. Schmoor, C. Beyerle, R.L.A. Neumann and H.F. Rauschecker for the German Breast Cancer Study Group (1994), Randomized 2times2 trial evaluating hormonal treatment and the duration of chemotherapy in node-positive breast cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12, 2086–2093.

W. Sauerbrei and P. Royston (1999). Building multivariable prognostic and diagnostic models: transformation of the predictors by using fractional polynomials. Journal of the Royal Statistics Society Series A, Volume 162(1), 71–94.

Examples

data(breast, package = "randomSurvivalForest")

[Package randomSurvivalForest version 3.6.1 Index]