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turbines: Fissures in turbine wheels

Description

In an experiment, turbine wheels were run for a number of hours, and the number of fissures developed was counted

Usage

data(turbines)

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 11 observations on the following 3 variables.

Hours

the number of hours the turbine was run; a numeric vector

Turbines

the number of turbines run for the given amount of hours; a numeric vector

Fissures

the number of turbines wheels with fissures; a numeric vector

Details

The data give the midpoints of running times; that is, the first row (where Hours=400) actually corresponds to a running time of 0 to 800 hours. The final class is 4400+ hours, taken as 4600 for convenience.

References

The original source is Wayne Nelson (1982) Applied Life Data, Wiley, 407--409.

Examples

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data(turbines)
summary(turbines)

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