scent: Maze tracing and scents

In fastR: Foundations and Applications of Statistics Using R

Description

Subjects were asked to to complete a pencil and paper maze when they were smelling a floral scent and when they were not.

Format

A data frame with 21 observations on the following 12 variables.

• id ID number

• sex a factor with levels F andM

• smoker a factor with levels N, Y

• opinion opinion of the odor (indiff, neg, or pos)

• age age of subject (in years)

• first which treatment was first, scented or unscented

• u1 time (in seconds) in first unscented trial

• u2 time (in seconds) in second unscented trial

• u3 time (in seconds) in third unscented trial

• s1 time (in seconds) in first scented trial

• s2 time (in seconds) in second scented trial

• s3 time (in seconds) in third scented trial

Source

These data are also available at DASL, the data and story library (http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/).

References

Hirsch, A. R., and Johnston, L. H. "Odors and Learning," Smell \& Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Chicago.

Examples

data(scent)
summary(scent)

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