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Survival of Breast Cancer Patients

Cancer.Rd

Three year survival of 474 breast cancer patients according to nuclear grade and diagnostic center.

Usage

data(Cancer)

Format

A 3-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 3 variables for 474 observations. The variable names and their levels are:

NoNameLevels
1Survival"Died", "Surv"
2Grade"Malignant", "Benign"
3Center"Boston", "Glamorgan"

Source

Lindsey, J. K. (1995). Analysis of Frequency and Count Data Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 38, Table 2.5.

Whittaker, J. (1990) Graphical Models in Applied Multivariate Statistics New York: John Wiley and Sons, p. 220.

Examples

data(Cancer)

MASS::loglm(~Survival + Grade + Center, data = Cancer)
#> Call:
#> MASS::loglm(formula = ~Survival + Grade + Center, data = Cancer)
#> 
#> Statistics:
#>                       X^2 df    P(> X^2)
#> Likelihood Ratio 17.54776  4 0.001512235
#> Pearson          17.14492  4 0.001811552

vcd::mosaic(Cancer, shade=TRUE)