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Student's Sleep Data

Description:

     Data which show the effect of two soporific drugs (increase in
     hours of sleep compared to control) on 10 patients.

Usage:

     sleep

Format:

     A data frame with 20 observations on 2 variables.

       [, 1]  extra  numeric  increase in hours of sleep
       [, 2]  group  factor   drug given

Source:

     Cushny, A. R. and Peebles, A. R. (1905) The action of optical
     isomers: II hyoscines. _The Journal of Physiology_ *32*, 501-510.

     Student (1908) The probable error of the mean. _Biometrika_, *6*,
     20.

References:

     Scheffe, Henry (1959) _The Analysis of Variance_. New York, NY:
     Wiley.

Examples:

     require(stats)
     ## Student's paired t-test
     t.test(extra ~ group, data = sleep, paired = TRUE)

