Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Broad bean plants

Keywords:

beans, concentration

Categories:

two-sample data;
biology

Description:

The data give the (scaled) concentration of a certain chemical in 10 cut shoots of a broad bean plant and 10 rooted plants.

There are two variables and 20 observations.

Variables:

Type	The type of sample: either Cut.shoot or Rooted.plant.
Concentration	The (scaled) concentration of some chemical in the samples.

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

Chatfield, C (1995). Problem solving: a statistician's guide, London: Chapman & Hall.

Notes:

The data can be used to perform a two-sample t-test, but plot the data first!

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