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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 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
- Date
-
date of flight
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. (2005). Applied Linear Regression, 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, Problem 12.6.
Examples
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