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)

[Package GlobalAncova version 3.4.0 Index]