[R] sleep data

Martin Maechler maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch
Thu Jan 18 18:13:45 CET 2007


Thank you, Chuck and Tom.

I'd gladly improve the help page,

particularly if you can provide a patch against

https://svn.R-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/datasets/man/sleep.Rd

where I've already added the Cushny and Peebles reference,
thanks to Chuck.

Regards,
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich


>>>>> "ChuckB" == Charles C Berry <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu>
>>>>>     on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:48:13 -0800 writes:

    ChuckB> Yes, you refer to

    ChuckB>  	Cushny, A. R. and Peebles, A. R. The action of
    ChuckB> optical isomers: II hyoscines. The Journal of
    ChuckB> Physiology, 1905, 32: 501.510.

    ChuckB> which was used by 'Student' to illustrate the paired
    ChuckB> t-test.

    ChuckB> This is indeed a crossover design.

    ChuckB> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:

    >> When reading the documentation for the "sleep" data set
    >> in R, the impression is clear, this is an "independent
    >> groups" kind of design (two groups of 10 subjects each).
    >> However, when browsing the original article (referred to
    >> in the help file), my impression is quite clear, this is
    >> really a "repeated measures" kind of data (one group of
    >> 10 subjects, two observations).  What is correct?
    >> 
    >> Tom
    >> 
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