BodyWeight: Rat weight over time for different diets
Description
The BodyWeight data frame has 176 rows and 4 columns.
Arguments
Format
This data frame contains the following columns:
weight
a numeric vector giving the body weight of the rat (grams).
Time
a numeric vector giving the time at which the measurement is
made (days).
Rat
an factor with levels A to P identifying the rat whose
weight is measured.
Diet
a factor with levels a to c indicating the
diet that the rat receives.
Details
Hand and Crowder (1996) describe data on the body weights of rats
measured over 64 days. These data also appear in Table 2.4 of
Crowder and Hand (1990). The body weights of the rats (in grams)
are measured on day 1 and every seven days thereafter until day 64,
with an extra measurement on day 44. The experiment started several
weeks before ``day 1.'' There are three groups of rats, each on a
different diet.