anorexia {MASS}R Documentation

Anorexia Data on Weight Change

Description

The anorexia data frame has 72 rows and 3 columns. Weight change data for young female anorexia patients.

Arguments

Treat Factor of three levels: Cont (Control), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Treatment) and FT (Family treatment).
Prewt Weight of patient before study period, in lbs.
Postwt Weight of patient after study period, in lbs.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Source

Hand, D. J., Daly, F., McConway, K., Lunn, D. and Ostrowski, E. eds (1993) A Handbook of Small Data Sets. Chapman & Hall, Data set 285 (p. 229)

(Note that the original source mistakenly says that weights are in kg.)


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