---
data_dictionary: fasting-turtles.txt

description: >
  Plasma Protein of Fasting Turtles. 
  Four male and four female turtles 
  had their plasma protein measured 
  while they were well fed and after 
  ten and twenty days of fasting.

additional_description:
  https://gksmyth.github.io/ozdasl/general/turtles.html

source: >
  "Zar, J. H. (1999). Biostatistical Analysis,
  Fourth Edition. Prentice-Hall International, 
  Exercise 14.4."

download_url: https://gksmyth.github.io/ozdasl/general/turtles.txt

copyright: >
  Gordon K. Smyth claims copyright on
  all datasets at OzDASL, but you can
  probably use this dataset under the
  Fair Use provisions of copyright law
  for individual educational purposes.
  
format:
  tab-delimited

varnames: first row of data
  
missing_value_code: Not needed

size:
  rows: 8
  columns: 5
  
vars:
  Subject:
    label: Subject id (1 to 8)
    
  Sex:
    values:
    -  Male
    -  Female

  Fed:
    label: Plasma protein while well fed
    units: mg/ml
    
  Fasted10:
    label: Plasma protein after fasting 10 days
    
  Fasted20:
    label: Plasma protein after fasting 20 days
---