ratdrink dataset

Rat growth weights affected by additives

Rat growth weights affected by additives

The data consist of 5 weekly measurements of body weight for 27 rats. The first 10 rats are on a control treatment while 7 rats have thyroxine added to their drinking water. 10 Rats have thiouracil added to their water. data

Format

A data frame with 135 observations on the following 4 variables.

  • wt: Weight of the rat
  • weeks: Week of the study from 0 to 4
  • subject: the rat code number
  • treat: treatment applied to the rat drinking water - a factor with levels control thiouracil thyroxine

Source

Unknown

  • Maintainer: Julian Faraway
  • License: GPL
  • Last published: 2025-02-07

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 135
  • Number of columns: 4
  • Class: data.frame

Column names and types

  • wt:numeric
  • weeks:integer
  • subject:factor
  • treat:factor