Description
Following a successful test of an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) in July 1999,
many prominent U.S. politicians called for the early deployment of a full ABM
system. The scientific community was less enthusiastic about the efficacy of
such a system. This data set contains the success or failure of ABM tests
between March 1983 and May 1995. Do these data suggest any
improvement in ABM
test success probability over time?source
Ramsey, F.L. and Schafer, D.W. (2013). The Statistical Sleuth: A
Course in Methods of Data Analysis (3rd ed), Cengage Learning.References
Lewis, G. N., Postol, T. A. and Pike, J. (1999) Why National Missile Defense
Won't Work, Scientific American 281(2): 36--41.