abd (version 0.2-6)

ShuttleDisaster: Ambient Temperature and O-Ring Failures

Description

Data on temperature and number of O-ring failures for 23 space shuttle launches.

source

Dalal, S.R., E.B. Fowlkes, and B. Hoadley. 1989. Risk analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger prediction of failure. Journal of the American Statistical Association 408: 945-957.

References

Tufte, E.R. 1997. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

Examples

data(ShuttleDisaster)
str(ShuttleDisaster)
xyplot( jitter(failures,amount=.1) ~ temperature, ShuttleDisaster,
  ylab='number of failures'
  )