depression {asbio}

Hamilton depression scores before and after drug treatment

Description

Hollander and Wolfe (1999) presented Hamilton depression scale factor measurements for 9 patients with mixed anxiety and depression. Measurements were taken at a time preceding administration of tranquilizer, and a time after tranquilizer administration.

Usage

data(depression)

Format

A data frame with 18 observations on the following 3 variables.

subject

Experimental subject.

scale

Hamilton depression scale score. 0-7 is considered to be normal. Scores of 20 or higher indicate moderate to very severe depression

time

A factor with levels post pre indicating before and after tranquilizer treatment.

Source

Hollander, M., and D. A. Wolfe. 1999. Nonparametric Statistical Methods. New York: John Wiley & Sons.