puppies: Puppy therapy data

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Puppy therapy data

Description

A dataset from Field, A. P. (2023). Discovering statistics using R and RStudio (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Usage

puppies

Format

A tibble with 15 rows and 3 variables.

Details

Despite the increase in puppies on my campus (which can only be a good thing) to reduce stress, the evidence base is pretty mixed. Imagine we wanted to contribute to this literature by running a study in which we randomized people into three groups (dose): (1) a control group, which could be a treatment as usual, a no treatment (no puppies) or ideally some kind of placebo group (we could give people in this group a cat disguised as a dog); (2) 15 minutes of puppy therapy (a low-dose group); and (3) 30 minutes of puppy contact (a high-dose group). The dependent variable was a measure of happiness ranging from 0 (as unhappy as I can possibly imagine) to 10 (as happy as I can possibly imagine). The design of this study mimics a very simple randomized controlled trial (as used in pharmacological, medical and psychological intervention trials) because people are randomized into a control group or groups containing the active intervention (in this case puppies, but in other cases a drug or a surgical procedure). The tibble contains the following variables:

• id: Participant id

• dose: Treatment group to which the participant was randomly assigned (No puppies (control), 15 minutes of puppy therapy, 30 minutes of puppy therapy)

• happiness: Self-reported happiness from 0 (as unhappy as I can possibly imagine being) to 10 (as happy as I can possibly imagine being)

Source

www.discovr.rocks/csv/puppies.csv

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