Is there a physiological basis for sexual preference? Researchers
measured the volumes of four cell groups in the interstitial nuclei of
the anterior hypothalamus in postmortem tissue from 41 subjects at
autopsy from seven metropolitan hospitals in New York and California.
Usage
ex0624
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 41 observations on the following 5 variables.
Volume
volumes of INAH3 (1000 \(\times\)
mm\(^3\)) cell clusters from 41 humans
Group
a factor with levels
"Group1"
heterosexual male with AIDS death
"Group2"
heterosexual male with Non-AIDS death
"Group3"
homosexual male with AIDS death
"Group4"
heterosexual female with AIDS death
Sex
a factor with levels "Female" and "Male"
Orientation
a factor with levels "Heterosexual" and
"Homosexual"
Death
a factor with levels "AIDS" and "Non-AIDS"
References
LeVay, S. (1991). A Difference in Hypothalamic Structure Between
Heterosexual and Homosexual Men, Science253(5023):
1034--1037.