derailme {forward}R Documentation

British Train Accidents.

Description

These data are obtained from Atkinson and Riani (2000), which is a simplified version of the data in Evans (2000). The outcome is the number of deaths that occurred in a train accident with a categorical covariate describing the type of rolling stock, and an exposure variable giving the annual distance travelled by trains in that year, and was originally analysed using a Poisson model. As the data does not include observations with zero deaths, it will be analysed here as a zero-truncated Poisson with an offset of log of the train distance. The derailme data frame has 67 rows and 5 columns.

Usage

data(derailme)

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

Month

Month of accident

Year

Year of accident

Type

Type of rolling stock 1=Mark 1 train, 2=Post-Mark 1 train, 3=Non-passenger

TrainKm

Amount of traffic on the railway system (billions of train km)

y

Number of deaths that occurred in the train accident

Source

Atkinson and Riani (2000)

References

Atkinson, A.C. and Riani, M. (2000), Robust Diagnostic Regression Analysis, First Edition. New York: Springer, Table A.18

Evans, A. W. (2000). Fatal train accidents on Britain's mainline railways. Journal Royal Statistical Society A, 163(1), 99-119.


[Package forward version 1.0.6 Index]