Temperature on Water Consumption Via Thirst

A hypothetical study of the effects of temperature on water consumption.

thirst

Format

A data frame with 50 cases and 3 variables:

temp

Room temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.

thirst

Self-reported thirst at the end of a 2-hour period.

water

Water consumed during the last 2 hours in deciliters.

Source

Table 3.1 in MacKinnon (2008)

References

MacKinnon, D. P. (2008). Introduction to statistical mediation analysis. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN:9780805839746. Google:vHUVYKfrdtYC.

Examples

data(thirst, package = "jeksterslabRdatarepo")
str(thirst)
#> 'data.frame':	50 obs. of  3 variables:
#>  $ temp  : int  70 71 69 70 71 70 69 70 70 72 ...
#>  $ thirst: int  4 4 1 1 3 4 3 5 4 5 ...
#>  $ water : int  3 3 3 3 3 2 3 5 4 4 ...
head(thirst)
#>   temp thirst water
#> 1   70      4     3
#> 2   71      4     3
#> 3   69      1     3
#> 4   70      1     3
#> 5   71      3     3
#> 6   70      4     2