titanic: Survival of passengers on the Titanic
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Survival of passengers on the Titanic

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.

NOTE: this is not the same as the dataset Titanic (note capital T) which has more observations, but also missing values.

Usage

titanic

Format

A data frame with 887 rows and 8 variables:

name: passenger name
survived: 0 = no, 1 = yes
sex: male/female
age: age of passenger
fare: ticket cost
firstclass: first class ticket

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Details

The sinking of the Titanic is a famous event, and new books are still being published about it. Many well-known facts—from the proportions of first-class passengers to the ‘women and children first’ policy, and the fact that that policy was not entirely successful in saving the women and children in the third class—are reflected in the survival rates for various classes of passenger.
These data were originally collected by the British Board of Trade in their investigation of the sinking. Note that there is not complete agreement among primary sources as to the exact numbers on board, rescued, or lost.
Due in particular to the very successful film ‘Titanic’, the last years saw a rise in public interest in the Titanic. Very detailed data about the passengers is now available on the Internet, at sites such as Encyclopedia Titanica (https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/).