
Lowering a patient's blood pressure during
surgery, using a hypotensive drug.


datasets

Functions, data sets, analyses and examples from the
third edition of the book
`A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R' (Torsten Hothorn and Brian S.
Everitt, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2014). The first chapter
of the book, which is entitled `An Introduction to R',
is completely included in this package, for all other chapters,
a vignette containing all data analyses is available. In addition,
Sweave source code for slides of selected chapters is included in
this package (see HSAUR3/inst/slides).

Torsten Hothorn

HSAUR3

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (3rd Edition)

bp function

A data frame with 53 observations on the following 3 variables.
  <dl>
    <dt><code>logdose</code></dt><dd>the logarithm (base 10) of the dose of drug in milligrams</dd> <dt><code>bloodp</code></dt><dd>average systolic blood pressure achieved while the drug was being administered</dd> <dt><code>recovtime</code></dt><dd>time in minutes before the patient's systolic blood pressure returned to 100mm of mercury</dd> </dl> 

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 J. D. Robertson and P. Armitage (1959)
  Comparison of Two Hypotensive Agents, <em>Anaesthesia</em>, 
  <b>14</b>(1), 53--64 

bp: Lowering Blood Pressure Data

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