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case1101

Alcohol Metabolism in Men and Women

Description

These data were collected on 18 women and 14 men to investigate a certain theory on why women exhibit a lower tolerance for alcohol and develop alcohol–related liver disease more readily than men.

Usage

case1101

Format

A data frame with 32 observations on the following 5 variables.

Subject: subject number in the study
Metabol: first–pass metabolism of alcohol in the stomach (in mmol/liter-hour)
Gastric: gastric alcohol dehydrogenase activity in the stomach (in mumol/min/g of tissue)
Sex: sex of the subject
Alcohol: whether the subject is alcoholic or not

Source

Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.

Examples

str(case1101)

plot(Metabol~Gastric, case1101,
     pch=ifelse(Sex=="Female", 19, 21),
     col=ifelse(Alcohol=="Alcoholic", "red", "green"))
legend(1,12, pch=c(19,21,19,21), col=c("green","green", "red", "red"),
             c("Non-alcoholic Females", "Non-alcoholic Males",
               "Alcoholic Females", "Alcoholic Males"))

library(lattice)
xyplot(Metabol~Gastric|Sex*Alcohol, case1101)
xyplot(Metabol~Gastric, case1101, groups=Sex:Alcohol,
        auto.key=list(x=0.2, y=0.8, corner=c(0,0), border=TRUE))

Sleuth2

Data Sets from Ramsey and Schafer's "Statistical Sleuth (2nd Ed)"

v2.0-5

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Original by F.L. Ramsey and D.W. Schafer; modifications by Daniel W. Schafer, Jeannie Sifneos and Berwin A. Turlach; vignettes contributed by Nicholas Horton, Kate Aloisio and Ruobing Zhang, with corrections by Randall Pruim

Initial release

2019-01-24