Survival of passengers on the Titanic

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Description

This data set provides information on the fate of passengers on the fatal maiden voyage of the ocean liner ‘Titanic’, summarized according to economic status (class), sex, age and survival.

Usage

Titanic

Format

A 4-dimensional array resulting from cross-tabulating 2201 observations on 4 variables. The variables and their levels are as follows:

Variable | Levels -------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Class | 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Crew Sex | Male, Female Age | Child, Adult Survived | No, Yes

Source

• Dawson, Robert J. MacG. (1995), The ‘Unusual Episode’ Data Revisited. Journal of Statistics Education, 3. https://doi.org/10.1080/10691898.1995.11910499

The source provides a data set recording class, sex, age, and survival status for each person on board of the Titanic, and is based on data originally collected by the British Board of Trade and reprinted in:

• British Board of Trade (1990), Report on the Loss of the ‘Titanic’ (S.S.). British Board of Trade Inquiry Report (reprint). Gloucester, UK: Allan Sutton Publishing. https://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTReport/botRep01.php

Full data set

To create a data set with all 2201 observations and 4 variables run

titanic <- as.data.frame(Titanic)
index   <- rep(1:nrow(titanic), titanic$Freq)
titanic <- titanic[index, -5] # exclude Freq
str(titanic)

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