colon.pheno {GlobalAncova} | R Documentation

## Covariate information for the colon data

### Description

Covariate data for the colon data example:

sex

  Sex of the patient.

age

  Age of the patient.

location

  Location of the tumour.

grade

  Histologic tumour grade.

UICC.stage

  UICC stage of colorectal carcinoma.

### Usage

    data(colon.pheno)

### Format

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 ...

### References

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.

### Examples

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

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