WeightLossIncentive: Do Financial Incentives Improve Weight Loss?

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Description

An experiment to see if financial incentives improve weight loss

Format

A dataset with 38 observations on the following 3 variables.

WeightLoss Weight loss (in pounds) after four months
Group Treatment group: Control or Incentive
Month7Loss Weight loss (in pounds) after seven months

Details

Researchers investigated whether financial incentives would help people lose weight more successfully. Some participants in the study were randomly assigned to a treatment group that was offered financial incentives for achieving weight loss goals, while others were assigned to a control group that did not use financial incentives. All participants were monitored over a four month period and the net weight change (Before - After in pounds) at the end of this period was recorded for each individual. Then the individuals were left alone for three months with a followup weight check at the seven-month mark to see whether weight losses persisted after the original four months of treatment.
The 4-month data alone (with missing values omitted) is stored in WeightLossIncentive4.
The 7-month data alone (with missing values omitted) is stored in WeightLossIncentive7.

Source

“Financial incentive-based approaches for weight loss," Journal of the American Medical Association by Volpp, John, Troxel, et. al., Vol. 200, no. 22, pp 2631-2637, (Dec. 2008)


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