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ShuttleDisaster

Ambient Temperature and O-Ring Failures


Description

Data on temperature and number of O-ring failures for 23 space shuttle launches.

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following 2 variables.

temperature

a numeric vector

failures

a numeric vector

Source

Dalal, S.R., E.B. Fowlkes, and B. Hoadley. 1989. Risk analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger prediction of failure. Journal of the American Statistical Association 408: 945-957.

References

Tufte, E.R. 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press.

Examples

str(ShuttleDisaster)
xyplot( jitter(failures, amount=0.1) ~ temperature, ShuttleDisaster,
  ylab='number of failures'
  )

abd

The Analysis of Biological Data

v0.2-8
GPL-2
Authors
Kevin M. Middleton <middletonk@missouri.edu>, Randall Pruim <rpruim@calvin.edu>
Initial release
2015-07-02

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