Donor:
Tjen-Sien Lim (limt '@' stat.wisc.edu)
Data Set Information:
The dataset contains cases from a study that was conducted between 1958 and 1970 at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital on the survival of patients who had undergone surgery for breast cancer.
Attribute Information:
1. Age of patient at time of operation (numerical)
2. Patient's year of operation (year - 1900, numerical)
3. Number of positive axillary nodes detected (numerical)
4. Survival status (class attribute)
-- 1 = the patient survived 5 years or longer
-- 2 = the patient died within 5 year
Relevant Papers:
Haberman, S. J. (1976). Generalized Residuals for Log-Linear Models, Proceedings of the 9th International Biometrics Conference, Boston, pp. 104-122.
Landwehr, J. M., Pregibon, D., and Shoemaker, A. C. (1984), Graphical Models for Assessing Logistic Regression Models (with discussion), Journal of the American Statistical Association 79: 61-83.
[Web Link]
Lo, W.-D. (1993). Logistic Regression Trees, PhD thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
[Web Link]
Papers That Cite This Data Set1:
Dennis DeCoste. Anytime Query-Tuned Kernel Machines via Cholesky Factorization. SDM. 2003. [View Context].
Dennis DeCoste. Anytime Interval-Valued Outputs for Kernel Machines: Fast Support Vector Machine Classification via Distance Geometry. ICML. 2002. [View Context].
Yin Zhang and W. Nick Street. Bagging with Adaptive Costs. Management Sciences Department University of Iowa Iowa City. [View Context].
Denver Dash and Gregory F. Cooper. Model Averaging with Discrete Bayesian Network Classifiers. Decision Systems Laboratory Intelligent Systems Program University of Pittsburgh. [View Context].
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