PASWR (version 1.3)

Schizo: Dopamine Activity

Description

Twenty-five patients with schizophrenia were classified as psychotic or nonpsychotic after being treated with an antipsychotic drug. Samples of cerebral fluid were taken from each patient and assayed for dopamine b-hydroxylase (DBH) activity. The dopamine measurements for the two groups are in nmol/(ml)(h)/(mg) of protein.

Format

A data frame with 15 observations on the following 2 variables:

nonpsychotic

dopamine activity level for patients classified nonpsychotic

psychotic

dopamine activity level for patients classified psychotic

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
with(data = Schizo, boxplot(nonpsychotic, psychotic,
names = c("nonpsychotic", "psychotic"), col = c("green", "red")))

# }