R: Glucose Levels Following Alcohol Ingestion

Glucose2 {nlme} | R Documentation

## Glucose Levels Following Alcohol Ingestion

### Description

The `Glucose2` data frame has 196 rows and 4 columns.

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Subject
  a factor with levels `1` to `7` identifying the subject whose glucose level is measured.
Date
  a factor with levels `1` `2` indicating the occasion in which the experiment was conducted.
Time
  a numeric vector giving the time since alcohol ingestion (in min/10).
glucose
  a numeric vector giving the blood glucose level (in mg/dl).

### Details

Hand and Crowder (Table A.14, pp. 180-181, 1996) describe data on the blood glucose levels measured at 14 time points over 5 hours for 7 volunteers who took alcohol at time 0. The same experiment was repeated on a second date with the same subjects but with a dietary additive used for all subjects.

### Source

Pinheiro, J. C. and Bates, D. M. (2000), Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS, Springer, New York. (Appendix A.10)

Hand, D. and Crowder, M. (1996), Practical Longitudinal Data Analysis, Chapman and Hall, London.

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