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Patients with Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma metadata
Description
This is a synthetically generated dataset containing metadata for healthy
individuals and patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer or adenomas. The
primary purpose of this dataset in the context of matching is to balance the
status
groups across various covariates and achieve optimal matching
quality.
Usage
data(cancer)
Format
A data frame (cancer
) with 1,224 rows and 5 columns:
- status
Patient's health status, which can be one of the following:
healthy
,adenoma
,crc_benign
(benign colorectal carcinoma), orcrc_malignant
(malignant colorectal carcinoma).- sex
Patient's biological sex, recorded as either
M
(male) orF
(female).- age
Patient's age, represented as a continuous numeric variable.
- bmi
Patient's Body Mass Index (BMI), represented as a continuous numeric variable.
- smoker
Smoking status of the patient, recorded as
yes
orno
.
Source
Data generated artificially