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.

Usage

data("titanic")

Format

A data frame with 16 observations on the following 5 variables.

NoSurv

Number of passengers that did not survive.

YesSurv

Number of survivors.

Class

1st, 2nd, 3rd, Crew

Sex

Male, Female

Age

Child, Adult

Source

rearranged from the R base dataset Titanic

Dawson, Robert J. MacG. (1995), The ‘Unusual Episode’ Data Revisited. Journal of Statistics Education, 3. doi: 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.

Examples

data(titanic)

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