\name{colon.pheno}
\alias{colon.pheno}
\docType{data}
\title{Covariate information for the colon data}
\description{
Covariate data for the colon data example:
\describe{
  \item{sex}{Sex of the patient.}
  \item{age}{Age of the patient.}
  \item{location}{Location of the tumour.}
  \item{grade}{Histologic tumour grade.}
  \item{UICC.stage}{UICC stage of colorectal carcinoma.}
}
}
\usage{data(colon.pheno)}
\format{
 The format is:    
  \describe{
    \item{\code{'data.frame'}:}{12 obs. of  5 variables:}  
    \item{\code{$sex}:}{Factor w/ 2 levels "0","1": 2 2 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 1 ...}  
    \item{\code{$age}:}{int  71 76 63 73 58 66 60 66 86 76 ...}   
    \item{\code{$location}:}{Factor w/ 2 levels "distal","proximal": 1 1 1 1 1
                1 1 1 2 1 ...} 
    \item{\code{$grade}:}{Factor w/ 2 levels "2","3": 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 2 2 2
                           ...} 
    \item{\code{$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, \emph{Int J Cancer} 119(8):1829--36.}
\examples{
data(colon.pheno)
#str(colon.pheno)
}
\keyword{datasets}