Contains data from etzioni\psa2b.dta obs: 683 CARET PSA Biomarker data - Etzioni substudy vars: 6 21 May 2002 11:19 size: 15,709 (99.9% of memory free) (_dta has notes) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- id int %8.0g * patient id d byte %8.0g ynlbl * Prostate Ca t float %9.0g time (years) relative to prostate Ca Dx fpsa float %9.0g free PSA tpsa float %9.0g total PSA age float %9.0g patient age at blood draw * indicated variables have notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: id t ********************** value labels for variables with numeric codes: ynlbl: 0 no 1 yes ********************* notes: _dta: 1. Data reference: Etzioni R, Pepe M, Longton G, Hu C, and Goodman G. Incorporating the time dimension in receiver operating characteristic curves: A case study of prostate cancer. Medical Decision Making, 19(3):242-251, 1999. id: 1. sequential, randomly assigned d: 1. non-cancer patients are controls matched to cases on age and # samples