wiedat2b {biostatUZH}R Documentation

Data of two pancreatic Ca biomarkers

Description

This dataset provides two paired diagnostic marker measurements for diagnosis of pancreatic cancer

Usage

data(wiedat2b)

Format

A data frame with 141 observations on the following 3 variables.

y1

Biomarker 1

y2

Biomarker 2

d

Disease: 0 = non-cancer, 1 = cancer.

Source

This dataset is used in Wieand et al. (1989) and Pepe (2003).

References

Wieand S, Gail MH, James BR, and James KL. A family of nonparametric statistics for comparing diagnostic markers with paired or unpaired data. Biometrika 76(3):585-92. 1989.

Pepe, M.S. (2003) The statistical evaluation of medical tests for classification and prediction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.


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