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ethanol: Ethanol Treatment for Tumors Experiment

Description

Experiment where 3 different treatments of ethanol were tested on the treatment of oral cancer tumors in hamsters.

Usage

ethanol

Format

A data frame with 24 observations, each representing one hamster, on the following 2 variables.

regress

a factor with levels no yes

Details

The ethyl_cellulose and pure_ethanol treatments consisted of about a quarter of the volume of the tumors, while the pure_ethanol_16x treatment was 16x that, so about 4 times the size of the tumors.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
table(ethanol)
fisher.test(table(ethanol))

# }