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 Index]