BodyTemp50 {Lock5Data}

Body Temperatures

Description

Sample of 50 body temperatures

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following 3 variables.

BodyTemp

Body temperature in degrees F

Pulse

Pulse rates (beat per minute)

Sex

F=Female, M=Male

Details

Body temperatures and pulse rates for a sample of 50 healthy adults. Note the Sex variable was labeled as Gender in earlier versions of this dataset. We acknowledge that this binary dichotomization is not a complete or inclusive representation of reality.

Source

Shoemaker, "What's Normal: Temperature, Gender and Heartrate", Journal of Statistics Education, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1996)
http://jse.amstat.org/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html