case0302 {Sleuth2} | R Documentation |
In 1987, researchers measured the TCDD concentration in blood samples from 646 U.S. veterans of the Vietnam War and from 97 U.S. veterans who did not serve in Vietnam. TCDD is a carcinogenic dioxin in the herbicide called Agent Orange, which was used to clear jungle hiding areas by the U.S. military in the Vietnam War between 1962 and 1970.
data(case0302)
A data frame with 743 observations on the following 2 variables.
Dioxin
Veteran
"Vietnam"
and "Other"
, to indicate the type of veteranRamsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2002). The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data Analysis (2nd ed), Duxbury.
Centers for Disease Control Veterans Health Studies: Serum 2,3,7,8-Tetraclorodibenzo-p-dioxin Levels in U.S. Army Vietnam-era Veterans. Journal of the American Medical Association 260: 1249–1254.
str(case0302) boxplot(Dioxin ~ Veteran, case0302) t.test(Dioxin ~ Veteran, case0302) ## To examine results with largest dioxin omitted t.test(Dioxin ~ Veteran, case0302, subset=(Dioxin < 40))