abd (version 0.2-8)

HumanBodyTemp: Human Body Temperature

Description

Body temperature for 25 randomly chosen health people

Format

A data frame with 25 observations of one variable.

temp

body temperature (degrees F)

Source

Shoemaker, A. L. 1996. What's normal? -- Temperature, gender, and heart rate. Journal of Statistics Education 4(2).

References

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

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.

Examples

histogram(~temp, HumanBodyTemp)
stem(HumanBodyTemp$temp, scale = 2)
favstats(HumanBodyTemp$temp)