sleep

Student's Sleep Data

Data which show the effect of two soporific drugs (increase in hours of sleep compared to control) on 10 patients.

Usage

sleep

Format

A data frame with 20 observations on 3 variables.

R project statistics dataset table
[, 1]	extra	numeric	increase in hours of sleep
[, 2]	group	factor	drug given
[, 3]	ID	factor	patient ID

Details

The group variable name may be misleading about the data: They represent measurements on 10 persons, not in groups.

Source

Cushny, A. R. and Peebles, A. R. (1905) The action of optical isomers: II hyoscines. The Journal of Physiology 32, 501–510.

Student (1908) The probable error of the mean. Biometrika, 6, 20.

References

Scheffé, Henry (1959) The Analysis of Variance. New York, NY: Wiley.

Examples

require(stats)
## Student's paired t-test
with(sleep,
 t.test(extra[group == 1],
extra[group == 2], paired = TRUE))
## The sleep *prolongations*
sleep1 <- with(sleep, extra[group == 2] - extra[group == 1])
summary(sleep1)
stripchart(sleep1, method = "stack", xlab = "hours",
 main = "Sleep prolongation (n = 10)")
boxplot(sleep1, horizontal = TRUE, add = TRUE,
at = .6, pars = list(boxwex = 0.5, staplewex = 0.25))

Attachments: csv, json

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