BCD (version 0.1.1)

shacc: Railway Shunter Accident Data (1937–1947)

Description

Accident records for 122 experienced railway shunters across two historical periods.

Usage

shacc

Format

A data frame with 122 rows and 2 variables:

X

Number of accidents during the 6-year period from 1937 to 1942.

Y

Number of accidents during the 5-year period from 1943 to 1947.

This dataset is useful for analyzing accident rates before and after possible policy or operational changes.

References

Arbous, A. G., & Kerrich, J. E. (1951). Accident statistics and the concept of accident-proneness. Biometrics, 7(4), 340. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/3001656")

Ghosh, I., Marques, F., & Chakraborty, S. (2025). A form of bivariate binomial conditionals distributions. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 54(2), 534--553. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/03610926.2024.2315294")

Examples

data(shacc)
head(shacc)
plot(shacc$X, shacc$Y, xlab = "Accidents 1937–42", ylab = "Accidents 1943–47")