Tumor size

Description

An experiment involved 21 cancer tumors. For each tumor the weight was registered as well as the emitted radioactivity obtained with a special medical technique (scintigraphic images). Three data points from large tumors were removed.

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 3 variables.

1. id : tumor id (numeric)
2. radioact : emitted radioactivity (numeric)
3. tumorwgt : tumor weight

Source

Shin et al. (2005). Noninvasive imaging for monitoring of viable cancer cells using a dual-imaging reporter gene. The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 45, 2109-2115.