pclass passenger class, unordered factor: 1st 2nd 3rd
survived integer: 0 or 1
sex unordered factor: male female
age age in years, double: min 0.167 max 80.0
sibsp number of siblings or spouses aboard, integer: 0...8
parch number of parents or children aboard, integer: 0...6
}
The dataset was compiled by Frank Harrell and Robert Dawson:
For this version of the Titanic data,
passenger details and incomplete cases were deleted
and the name changed to etitanic to minimize confusion with other
versions ("e" because it is part of the earth package).
Contents of etitanic:
pclass survived sex age sibsp parch
1 1st 1 female 29.000 0 0
2 1st 1 male 0.917 1 2
3 1st 0 female 2.000 1 2
4 1st 0 male 30.000 1 2
5 1st 0 female 25.000 1 2
...
1309 3rd 0 male 29.000 0 0
How etitanic was built:
load("titanic3") # from Harrell's web site
# discard name, ticket, fare, cabin, embarked, body, home.dest
etitanic = titanic3[,c(1,2,4,5,6,7)]
etitanic = etitanic[!is.na(etitanic$age),]
save(etitanic, file="etitanic.rda")
earth