bodytemp {evidence}

Data on body temperature, heart rate, and gender of 130 human subjects.

Description

These data were collected by Mackowiak, Wasserman, and Levine(1992), and have been used, among others, by Ntzoufras(2009).

Usage

data(bodytemp)

Format

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

temperature

body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit

gender

a factor with levels 'female' and 'male'

heart.rate

heart rate in beats per minute

Source

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. JASA 268, 1578–1580.

Ntzoufras, I.(2009) Bayesian Modeling Using Winbugs. Wiley, Hoboken, N.J.

van Hulst, R. 2018. Evaluating Scientific Evidence. ms.

Examples

data(bodytemp)
B2Nsir(temperature ~ gender, bodytemp)