Reaction time with cell phone usage
A simulated dataset on reaction time to an external event for subject using cell phones.
data(reaction.time)
A data frame with 60 observations on the following 4 variables.
Age of participant coded as 16-24 or 25+
Male of Female
Code to indicate if subject is using a cell phone "T" or is in the control group "C"
Time in seconds to react to external event
Several studies indicate that cell phone usage while driving can effect reaction times to external events. This dataset uses simulated data based on values from the NHTSA study "The Influence of the Use of Mobile Phones on Driver Situation Awareness".
The NHTSA study was found at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-13/driver-distraction/PDF/2.PDF
This study and others are linked from the web page http://www.accidentreconstruction.com/research/cellphones/.
data(reaction.time) boxplot(time ~ control, data = reaction.time)
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