pulse: Pulse rates before and after exercise.

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Pulse rates before and after exercise.

Description

Data from a classroom experiment investigating the effect of exercise (running in place) on pulse rates. Assignment to the experimental treatment (ran) was randomized.

Usage

pulse

Format

A data frame with 110 observations and 11 variables:

height:

height (cm)

weight:

weight (kg)

age:

age (years)

gender:

gender (male or female)

smokes:

smoking (yes or no)

alcohol:

alcohol use (yes or no)

exercise:

frequency of exercise (high, moderate, or low)

treatment:

activity between pulse measurements (ran or sat)

pulse1:

first pulse measurement (per minute)

pulse2:

second pulse measurement (per minute)

year:

year of class

Note

One issue with these data noted in the source (see below) is that there is some concern of non-compliance. Some students assigned to the running condition may have elected to not run instead.

Source

http://www.statsci.org/data/oz/ms212.html

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