About the dataset Name : Haberman's Survival Data
About : The dataset contains cases from a study that was conducted between 1958 and 1970 at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital on the survival of patients who had undergone surgery for breast cancer.
Number of points : 306 Number of features:04(including class) Number of points survival status for class1=224 points Number of points survival status for class2=81 points features: age - Age of the patient at the time of operation year - Year of the operation nodes - Number of positive auxillary nodes Survival status (class attribute) 1 = the patient survived 5 years or longer 2 = the patient died within 5 year
Objective To predict/classify whether the patient survived or not after 5 years of treatment based on the given independent variables such as age of patient , year of operation and the number of lymph nodes