normtemp: Temperature and heart rate data

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

Temperature and heart rate data

Description

Temperature, gender and hear rate data reconstructed to match summary data from a paper.

Usage

normtemp

Format

A data frame with 130 observations of 3 variables

temp

temperature of patient in degrees Fahrenheit

gender

gender of patient 1 = male, 2 = female

bpm

heart rate in beats per minute

Details

From the author: "This article takes data from a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association that examined whether the true mean body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Because the dataset suggests that the true mean is approximately 98.2, it helps students to grasp concepts about true means, confidence intervals, and t-statistics. Students can use a t-test to test for sex differences in body temperature and regression to investigate the relationship between temperature and heart rate."

Source

"Datasets and Stories" article "What’s Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate" in the Journal of Statistics Education (Shoemaker 1996).

http://jse.amstat.org/datasets/normtemp.dat.txt

http://jse.amstat.org/v4n2/datasets.shoemaker.html

Mackowiak, Wasserman, and Levine, "A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich", JAMA 1992.

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