| normtemp {UsingR} | R Documentation |
Body temperature and heart rate of 130 health individuals
Description
A data set used to investigate the claim that “normal” temperature is 98.6 degrees.
Usage
data(normtemp)Format
A data frame with 130 observations on the following 3 variables.
- temperature
normal body temperature
- gender
Gender 1 = male, 2 = female
- hr
Resting heart rate
Details
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.
Source
This data set was contributed by Allen L. Shoemaker to the Journal of Statistics Education, http://jse.amstat.org/datasets/normtemp.txt.
References
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.
Examples
data(normtemp)
hist(normtemp$temperature)
t.test(normtemp$temperature,mu=98.2)
summary(lm(temperature ~ factor(gender), normtemp))