pump {hglm.data}

Pump reliability data set from Gaver and O'Muircheartaigh (1987)

Description

The ‘pump’ data set presents the failures of pumps in several systems of the water reactor neuclear plant Farley 1.

Format

The ‘pump’ data set contains 4 columns and 10 rows. A short description of the data columns are given below.

System

The system number.

S

Number of pumps failures.

t

Time (in thousand hours) of operation.

Gr

Pump groups; two levels: 1 = operated continuously, 0 = operated intermittently.

Source

Gaver, D P. and O'Muircheartaigh, I. G. 1987. Robust Empirical Bayes Analyses of Event Rates, Technometrics 29(1),1–15

References

Lee, Y. and Nelder, J. A. 1996. Hierarchical generalized linear models, Journal of the Royal Statistical Association (B, Theory and Methods) 58(4), 619–678.