guineapig: Guineapig data

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Guineapig data

Description

Data derived from a study of the effects of nicotine on the development of guineapig offspring (Johns et al 1993). Ten pregnant guineapigs were injected with nicotine hydrogen tartite solution, and ten control guinea pigs were injected with saline solution as a control. Learning capabilities of offspring were then measured as the number of errors made when trying to remember where to find food in a simple maze. Data presented are not from the original paper- they have been generated to match the summary statistics reported in Johns et al (1993).

Usage

data(guineapig)

Format

A list containing two dataframes, oat and wheat, depending on the crop. Each dataframe contains:

errors

Number of errors made

treatment

N=Nicotine, C=Control

References

Johns et al. (1993) The effects of chronic prenatal exposure to nicotine on the behavior of guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus). The Journal of General Psychology 120, 49-63.

Examples

data(guineapig)
plot(errors~treatment,data=guineapig)

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