Plasma Protein of Fasting Turtles

Keywords: repeated measures

Description

Four male and four female turtles had their plasma protein measured while they were well fed and after ten and twenty days of fasting.


	Variable		Description

	Subject		1-8
	Sex		Male or Female
	Fed		Plasma protein while well fed (mg/ml)
	Fasted10		Plasma protein after fasting 10 days
	Fasted20		Plasma protein after fasting 20 days

Data File (tab-delimited text)

Zar, J. H. (1999). Biostatistical Analysis, Fourth Edition. Prentice-Hall International, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Exercise 14.4.

This is very well behaved data. There is a change from the second to third trial, but no significant difference between the sexes.