Contains data from psa_dre_v2.dta obs: 19,476 DS Smith - prostate cancer screen: paired PSA & DRE cohort data vars: 4 23 May 2007 15:50 size: 155,808 (99.0% of memory free) (_dta has notes) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- storage display value variable name type format label variable label ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- race byte %9.0g race psa byte %9.0g yesno serum PSA dre byte %9.0g yesno DRE d byte %9.0g ynlbl * Prostate cancer * indicated variables have notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: ********************** value labels for variables with numeric codes: ynlbl: 0 no 1 yes yesno: 0 neg 1 pos race: 0 white 1 black ********************* notes: _dta: 1. Data reference: Smith DS, Bullock AD, Catalona WJ. Racial differences in operating characteristics of prostate cancer screening tests. The Journal of Urology 158:1861-66. 1997. 2. 5/23/07. psa_dre_v2.dta corrects an error in psa_dre.dta - the omission of three records for white subjects with neg DRE and neg PSA d: 1. patients negative for both PSA and DRE were not biopsied, thus d is missing