R: Brain Cancer Microarray Data

brain {rda} | R Documentation

## Brain Cancer Microarray Data

### Description

The `brain` data contains two objects: `brain.x`, microarray expression data for 42 brain cancer samples and `brain.y`, the class labels for these samples.

### Usage

    data(brain)

### Format

An expression data matrix (42x5597) `brain.x` and a class label vector (42) `brain.y` for 42 samples.

### Details

`brain.y` is the class labels of the 42 samples. `brain.x` is the microarray expression data matrix with each row representing a sample.

### Source

Pomeroy, S. et al. (2002) Prediction of Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumor Outcome Based on Gene Expression. Nature, Vol 415, p436-442. The data set is available at http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpr/CNS/.

### References

Guo, Y. et al. (2004) Regularized Discriminant Analysis and Its Application in Microarrays, Technical Report, Department of Statistics, Stanford University.

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