Subjects were asked to to complete a pencil and paper maze when they were smelling a floral scent and when they were not.
Format
A data frame with 21 observations on the following 12 variables.
- id
ID number
- sex
a factor with levels
F
andM
- smoker
a factor with levels
N
,Y
- opinion
opinion of the odor (
indiff
,neg
, orpos
)
- age
age of subject (in years)
- first
which treatment was first,
scented
orunscented
- u1
time (in seconds) in first unscented trial
- u2
time (in seconds) in second unscented trial
- u3
time (in seconds) in third unscented trial
- s1
time (in seconds) in first scented trial
- s2
time (in seconds) in second scented trial
- s3
time (in seconds) in third scented trial
Source
These data are also available at DASL, the data and story library (https://dasl.datadescription.com/).
References
Hirsch, A. R., and Johnston, L. H. "Odors and Learning," Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, Chicago.
Examples
data(Scent)
#> Warning: data set ‘Scent’ not found
summary(Scent)
#> id sex smoker opinion age first
#> Min. : 1 F:10 N:13 indiff: 4 Min. :15.00 scented :10
#> 1st Qu.: 6 M:11 Y: 8 neg : 7 1st Qu.:26.00 unscented:11
#> Median :11 pos :10 Median :35.00
#> Mean :11 Mean :36.57
#> 3rd Qu.:16 3rd Qu.:43.00
#> Max. :21 Max. :65.00
#> u1 u2 u3 s1
#> Min. :32.80 Min. :26.80 Min. :25.70 Min. :28.30
#> 1st Qu.:40.90 1st Qu.:38.00 1st Qu.:37.20 1st Qu.:49.60
#> Median :49.50 Median :46.80 Median :43.20 Median :53.60
#> Mean :53.92 Mean :48.94 Mean :47.18 Mean :55.53
#> 3rd Qu.:60.10 3rd Qu.:57.90 3rd Qu.:58.00 3rd Qu.:67.30
#> Max. :93.80 Max. :91.90 Max. :77.40 Max. :77.50
#> s2 s3
#> Min. : 25.10 Min. :24.80
#> 1st Qu.: 36.80 1st Qu.:34.40
#> Median : 44.00 Median :42.90
#> Mean : 48.31 Mean :43.32
#> 3rd Qu.: 53.40 3rd Qu.:48.40
#> Max. :126.60 Max. :64.50