Cancer {FKBL} | R Documentation |
Wisconsin Breast Cancer Database (January 8, 1991)
Description
This is a matrix with 10 columns. Each row is a point, there are 699 points. The 9 first columns are the value of a dimension (or attribute) of the point, the 10th is the class of that point. The attributes are:
begin{enumerate}
Sample code number
Clump Thickness
Uniformity of Cell Size
Uniformity of Cell Shape
Marginal Adhesion
Single Epithelial Cell Size
Bare Nuclei (this item had several values marked as "?", the points with those values have been comented out)
Bland Chromatin
Normal Nucleoli
Mitoses
end{enumerate}
Usage
data(cancer)
Format
A matrix.
Source
begin{itemize}
UCI ML Repository
Dr. WIlliam H. Wolberg (physician)
University of Wisconsin Hospitals
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Donor: Olvi Mangasarian (mangasarian@cs.wisc.edu)
Received by David W. Aha
(aha@cs.jhu.edu)
Date: 15 July 1992
end{itemize}
References
begin{enumerate}
O. L. Mangasarian and W. H. Wolberg: "Cancer diagnosis via linear
programming", SIAM News, Volume 23, Number 5, September 1990, pp 1 & 18.
William H. Wolberg and O.L. Mangasarian:
"Multisurface method of
pattern separation for medical diagnosis applied to breast cytology",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., Volume 87,
December 1990, pp 9193-9196.
end{enumerate}
[Package
FKBL version 0.50-4
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