R Dataset / Package Stat2Data / Leukemia
On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Leukemia data set which pertains to Leukemia. The Leukemia data set is found in the Stat2Data R package. You can load the Leukemia data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Leukemia"). This will load the data into a variable called Leukemia. If R says the Leukemia data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Stat2Data") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Leukemia R data set. The size of this file is about 1,398 bytes.
Leukemia
Description
Treatment results for leukemia patients
Format
A dataset with 51 observations on the following 9 variables.
Age | Age at diagnosis (in years) |
Smear | Differential percentage of blasts |
Infil | Percentage of absolute marrow leukemia infiltrate |
Index | Percentage labeling index of the bone marrow leukemia cells |
Blasts | Absolute number of blasts, in thousands |
Temp | Highest temperature of the patient prior to treatment, in degrees Farenheit |
Resp | 1 =responded to treatment or 0 =failed to respond |
Time | Survival time from diagnosis (in months) |
Status | 0 =dead or 1 =alive |
Details
A study involved 51 untreated adult patients with acute myeloblastic leukemia who were given a course of treatment, after which they were assessed as to their response.
Source
Data come from Statistical Analysis Using S-Plus (Brian S. Everitt; first edition 1994, Chapman & Hall).
Dataset imported from https://www.r-project.org.