R/data-thermometry.R

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#' A dataframe of 130 rows and 3 on body temperature.
#'
#' Data derived from a study examining whether population mean body temperature
#' is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Participant level data was constructed from
#' histograms in the cited reference
#'
#' @name thermometry
#' @docType data
#' @encoding UTF-8
#' @format A tibble with 130 rows and 3 variables:
#' \describe{
#'    \item{\code{body.temp}}{Numeric, body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit}
#'    \item{\code{gender}}{Factor, recorded gender of participant, with levels
#'      \code{female}, \code{male}}
#'    \item{\code{heart.rate}}{Numeric, heart rate, in beats per minute}
#'    }
#' @source{http://jse.amstat.org/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html}
#' @references 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,
#'     Journal of the American Medical Association, 268, 1578-1580.
#'     Shoemaker, A.L., College, C. (1996) What's Normal? -- Temperature, Gender, and
#'     Heart Rate Journal of Statistics Education, 4 (2)
"thermometry"