challenger: Space Shuttle Challenger Data

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Space Shuttle Challenger Data

Description

Data on 23 flights of the space shuttle Challenger prior to the 1986 accident, wherein the shuttle blew up during takeoff.

Usage

challenger

Format

A dataframe with 23 observations on two variables, namely O-ring temperature (ºF) and oring state (1 = failure; 0 = success).

References

de Carvalho, M. (2012) A Generalization of the Solis–Wets method. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 142, 633-644.

Examples

## Not run: 
data(challenger)
ggplot(challenger, aes(x = as.factor(oring), y = temperature)) +
    geom_boxplot(fill = "steelblue", alpha = 0.3) +
    xlab("Failure") +
    ylab("Temperature (ºF)") +
    theme_minimal()

## End(Not run)

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