bodytemps.csv

Description

These data are derived from a dataset used in Mackowiak, P. A., Wasserman, S. S., and Levine, M. M. (1992), “A Critical Appraisal of 98.6 Degrees F, the Upper Limit of the Normal Body Temperature, and Other Legacies of Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich,” Journal of the American Medical Association, 268(12), 1578-1580. They were constructed to match as closely as possible the histograms and summary statistics presented in that article by Shoemaker, A. L., (1996). “What’s Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate,” Journal of Statistics Education, 4(2).

Some questions we could investigate with these data include:

  1. Is the distribution of body temperatures normal?
  2. Is the true population mean really 98.6 degrees F?
  3. At what temperature should we consider someone’s temperature to be “abnormal”?
  4. Is there a significant difference in normal temperature between males and females?
  5. Is there a relationship between people’s normal body temperatures and heart rates?
  6. Does it matter that the original temperatures were measured on the Celsius scale?

Variables

Rows: 130
Columns: 3
$ sex      <chr> "male", "male", "male", "male", "male", "male", "male", "male…
$ tempF    <dbl> 96.3, 96.7, 96.9, 97.0, 97.1, 97.1, 97.1, 97.2, 97.3, 97.4, 9…
$ heartbpm <dbl> 70, 71, 74, 80, 73, 75, 82, 64, 69, 70, 68, 72, 78, 70, 75, 7…
# A tibble: 6 × 3
  sex   tempF heartbpm
  <chr> <dbl>    <dbl>
1 male   96.3       70
2 male   96.7       71
3 male   96.9       74
4 male   97         80
5 male   97.1       73
6 male   97.1       75

References

Source: Shoemaker, Allen L. (1996). “What’s Normal? – Temperature, Gender, and Heart Rate,” Journal of Statistics Education 4(2).