shuttles: O-rings on the space shuttles

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O-rings on the space shuttles

Description

The number of O-rings damaged for 23 space shuttle launches

Usage

data(shuttles)

Format

A data frame containing 23 observation with the following 2 variables.

Temp

the ambient air temperature in degrees Fahrenheit; a numeric vector

Damaged

the number of primary O-rings damaged for 23 space shuttle launches

Details

The data give the ambient temperature and the number of primary O-rings damaged for 23 of the 24 space shuttle launches before the launch of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. (Challenger was the 25th shuttle. One engine was lost at sea and could not be examined.) Each space shuttle contains 6 primary O-rings.

Source

Samprit Chatterjee, Mark S. Handcock and Jeffrey S. Simonoff (1995) A Casebook for a First Course in Statistics and Data Analysis, Wiley.

Siddhartha R. Dalal, Edward B. Fowlkes and Bruce Hoadley (1989) Risk analysis of the space shuttle: Pre-Challenger prediction of failure. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84(408), 945–957; Table 1.

Examples

   data(shuttles)
   plot(Damaged/6 ~ Temp, data=shuttles)

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