reaction.time {UsingR} | R Documentation

## Reaction time with cell phone usage

### Description

A simulated dataset on reaction time to an external event for subject using cell phones.

### Usage

    data(reaction.time)

### Format

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 4 variables.

age
  Age of participant coded as 16-24 or 25+
gender
  Male of Female
control
  Code to indicate if subject is using a cell phone "T" or is in the control group "C"
time
  Time in seconds to react to external event

### Details

Several studies indicate that cell phone usage while driving can effect reaction times to external events. This dataset uses simulated data based on values from the NHTSA study "The Influence of the Use of Mobile Phones on Driver Situation Awareness".

### Source

The NHTSA study may be found at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-13/driver-distraction/PDF/2.PDF

### References

This study and others are linked from the web page http://www.accidentreconstruction.com/research/cellphones/.

### Examples

    data(reaction.time)
    boxplot(time ~ control, data = reaction.time)

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]