colon.pheno           package:GlobalAncova           R Documentation

_C_o_v_a_r_i_a_t_e _i_n_f_o_r_m_a_t_i_o_n _f_o_r _t_h_e _c_o_l_o_n _d_a_t_a

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Covariate data for the colon data example:

_s_e_x Sex of the patient.

_a_g_e Age of the patient.

_l_o_c_a_t_i_o_n Location of the tumour.

_g_r_a_d_e Histologic tumour grade.

_U_I_C_C._s_t_a_g_e UICC stage of colorectal carcinoma.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(colon.pheno)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     The format is:    
      '`data.frame':   12 obs. of  5 variables:'  
      '$ sex       : Factor w/ 2 levels "0","1": 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1
     ...'  
      '$ age       : int  71 76 63 73 58 66 60 66 86 76 ...'   
      '$ location  : Factor w/ 2 levels "distal","proximal": 1 1 1 1 1
     1 1 1 2 1 ...' 
      '$ grade     : Factor w/ 2 levels "2","3": 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2
     ...'   
      '$ UICC.stage: Factor w/ 2 levels "2","3": 2 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1
     ...'

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Groene, J. et al., 2006, Transcriptional census of 36
     microdissected colorectal cancers yields a gene signature  to
     distinguish UICC II and III, _Int J Cancer_ 119(8):1829-36.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(colon.pheno)
     #str(colon.pheno)

