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8.2.45.59 octave.dataset.sleep ¶

Static Method: out = sleep () ¶

Student’s Sleep Data

Description ¶

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

Format ¶

id

Patient ID.

group

Drug given.

extra

Increase in hours of sleep.

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 ¶

t = octave.dataset.sleep;

# TODO: Port to Octave