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Regression Analysis with R
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Regression Analysis with R

by Giuseppe Ciaburro, Pierre Paquay, Manoj Kumar, Shaikh Salamatullah
January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
422 pages
9h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Classifying breast cancer using logistic regression

The breast is made up of a set of glands and adipose tissue, and is placed between the skin and the chest wall. In fact, it is not a single gland, but a set of glandular structures, called lobules, joined together to form a lobe. In a breast, there are 15 to 20 lobes. The milk reaches the nipple from the lobules through small tubes called milk ducts.

Breast cancer is a potentially serious disease if it is not detected and treated for a long time. It is caused by uncontrolled multiplication of some cells in the mammary gland that are transformed into malignant cells. This means that they have the ability to detach themselves from the tissue that has generated them to invade the surrounding ...

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