coalMining: Coal Mining Disasters data

In GeDS: Geometrically Designed Spline Regression

Description

A dataset with 112 entries containing annual numbers of accidents due to disasters in British coal mines for years from 1850 to 1962, considered in Carlin et al. (1992) and also in Eilers and Marx (1996).

Usage

data(coalMining)

Format

A data.frame with 112 entries, corresponding to the years from 1850 to 1962. Each entry has:

accidents

number of severe accidents that have occurred each year.

years

year during which accidents occurred.

References

Carlin, B.P., Gelfand, A.E. and Smith, A.F.M. (1992). Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of changepoint problems. Applied Statistics, 41(2), 389–405.

Eilers, P.H.C. and Marx, B.D. (1996). Flexible Smoothing with B-splines and Penalties. Statistical Science, 11(2), 89–121.

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