normtemp               package:UsingR               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A data set used to investigate the claim that "normal" temperature
     is 98.6 degrees.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     data(normtemp)

_F_o_r_m_a_t:

     A data frame with 130 observations on the following 3 variables.

     _t_e_m_p_e_r_a_t_u_r_e normal body temperature

     _g_e_n_d_e_r Gender 1 = male, 2 = female

     _h_r Resting heart rate

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Is normal body temperature 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit? This dataset
     was constructed to match data presented in an are article
     intending to establish the true value of "normal" body
     temperature.

_S_o_u_r_c_e:

     This data set was contributed by Allen L. Shoemaker to the
     _Journal of Statistics Education_, <URL:
     http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/datasets/normtemp.txt>.

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     Data set is simulated from values contained in  Mackowiak, P. A.,
     Wasserman, S. S., and Levine, M. M.  (1992), "A Critical Appraisal
     of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature,
     and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich," _Journal
     of the American Medical Association_, 268, 1578-1580.

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data(normtemp)
     hist(normtemp$temperature)
     t.test(normtemp$temperature,mu=98.2)
     summary(lm(temperature ~ factor(gender), normtemp))

