ex1416: Blood Brain Barrier

In Sleuth3: Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (3rd Ed)"

Blood Brain Barrier

Description

Researchers designed an experiment to investigate how delivery of brain cancer antibody is influenced by tumor size, antibody molecular weight, blood-brain barrier disruption, and delivery route.

Usage

ex1416

Format

A data frame with 36 observations on the following 6 variables.

Agent

a factor with levels "AIB", "DEX7" and "MTX"

Treatment

a factor with levels "BD" and "NS"

Route

a factor with levels "IA" and "IV"

DaysPost

days after inoculation

BAT

concentration of antibody in the part of the brain around the tumor

LH

concentration of antibody in the unaffected part of the brain

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.

References

Barnett, P.A., Roman-Goldstain, S., Ramsey, F., McCormick, C.I., Sexton, G., Szumowski, J. and Neuwelt, E.A. (1995). Differential Permeability and Quantitative MR Imaging of a Human Lung Carcinoma Brain Xenograft in the Nude Rat, American Journal of Pathology 146(2): 436–449.

See Also

case1102, ex1417

Examples

str(ex1416)

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