human_bodytemp: Human body temperature data and heartrate

In brouwern/wildlifeR: Wildlife biology and animal ecology datasets with example analyses.

Description

Physiology data originally from Mackowiak et al (1992). Developed as a demonstration for t-tests by Shoemaker (1996) and also used by Motulsky (2014).

Usage

human_bodytemp

Format

A data frame with 2 columns:

temp

body temperature in degrees F

sex

sex of individual

heartrate

heartrate in beats per minute

Source

https://www.fws.gov/midwestgle/population/nos_state_tbl.html

http://www.media.pa.gov/pages/Game-Commission-Details.aspx?newsid=44

References

Mackowiak et al. 1992. A critical appraisal of 98.6 F, the upper limit of the normal body temperature, and Other legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich. JAMA. 268:1578-1580. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/400116

Motulsky, H. 2014. Intuitive biostatistics: a nonmathematical guide to statistical thinking.

Shoemaker, A. 1996. What's Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate. Journal of Statistics Education v.4, n.2. ww2.amstat.org/publications/jse/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html

Examples

## Histogram of body temperature
hist(human_bodytemp$temp)

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