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Challenger data
Description
Contains data from the performance of O-rings in 23 U.S. space shuttle flights prior to the Challenger disaster of January 20, 1986.
Format
This data frame uses dates as row names and contains the following columns:
- temp
-
Air Temp at launch (degrees F)
- pres
-
Leak check pressure
- fail
-
Number of O-rings that failed
- n
-
6, number of O-rings in launch
- erosion
-
Number of erosion incidents
- blowby
-
Number of blowby incidents
- damage
-
Total Damage Index
Source
Dalal, S, Fowlkes, E. B. and Hoadley, B. (1989), Risk analysis of the space shuttle: Pre-challenger prediction of failure, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 945-957. See also Tufte, E. R. (1997), Visual and statistical Thinking: Displays of evidence for making decisions, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.
References
Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.
Examples
head(Challeng)