A dataframe of 130 rows and 3 on body temperature.

Data derived from a study examining whether population mean body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Participant level data was constructed from histograms in the cited reference

Usage

thermometry

Format

A tibble with 130 rows and 3 variables:

body.temp

Numeric, body temperature in degrees Fahrenheit

gender

Factor, recorded gender of participant, with levels female, male

heart.rate

Numeric, heart rate, in beats per minute

Source

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

References

Mackowiak, P. A., Wasserman, S. S., and Levine, M. M. (1992), A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, Journal of the American Medical Association, 268, 1578-1580. Shoemaker, A.L., College, C. (1996) What's Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate Journal of Statistics Education, 4 (2)