Anorexia Data on Weight Change

Description

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

Usage

anorexia

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

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.

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.)

References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.