Brief information from the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository:
- BUPA Medical Research Ltd. database donated by Richard S. Forsyth
- 7 numeric-valued attributes
- 345 instances (male patients)
- Includes cost data (donated by Peter Turney)
- Ftp Access
1. Title: BUPA liver disorders
2. Source information:
-- Creators: BUPA Medical Research Ltd.
-- Donor: Richard S. Forsyth
8 Grosvenor Avenue
Mapperley Park
Nottingham NG3 5DX
0602-621676
-- Date: 5/15/1990
3. Past usage:
-- None known other than what is shown in the PC/BEAGLE User's Guide
(written by Richard S. Forsyth).
4. Relevant information:
-- The first 5 variables are all blood tests which are thought
to be sensitive to liver disorders that might arise from
excessive alcohol consumption. Each line in the bupa.data file
constitutes the record of a single male individual.
-- It appears that drinks>5 is some sort of a selector on this database.
See the PC/BEAGLE User's Guide for more information.
5. Number of instances: 345
6. Number of attributes: 7 overall
7. Attribute information:
1. mcv mean corpuscular volume
2. alkphos alkaline phosphotase
3. sgpt alamine aminotransferase
4. sgot aspartate aminotransferase
5. gammagt gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase
6. drinks number of half-pint equivalents of alcoholic beverages
drunk per day
7. selector field used to split data into two sets
8. Missing values: none