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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2013 Jun 19;32(26):4609–4623. doi: 10.1002/sim.5876

Table 1.

Variable Description and Summary Statistics.

Variable Description Mean SD
BLPAIN Binary: 1 if the patient has baseline pain 0.48 -
BONEMET Binary: 1 if the patient has bone metastases. 0.88 -
CAUCASIAN Binary: 1 if the patient is Caucasian. 0.81 -
CHEMOGE3 Binary: 1 if the patient has prior chemotherapy. 0.29 -
DPMEASBN Binary: 1 if the patient has measurable disease. 0.43 -
TAX2PROG Binary: 1 if the patient’s last Taxotere to progression is less than 6 months. 0.89 -
VISCMET Binary: 1 if the patient has visceral metastases. 0.23 -
ECOG Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0–2. 0.32/0.61/0.071 -
baseALP Baseline Alkaline Phosphatase (U/L). 221.18 223.96
baseHB Baseline Hemoglobin (g/DL). 12.07 1.40
basePSA Baseline Prostate Specific Antigen (ng/mL). 295.96 398.65
BMI Body Mass Index. 28.01 4.61
PSADT Time (in days) for a patient’s PSA to double. 5.02 4.90
TIME_HORMONE Time (in years) on hormone treatment. 4.40 2.91
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These three values represent the proportion of patients having performance status 0, 1 and 2.