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Challenger: Challenger

Description

Data on O-rings in 23 space shuttle flights prior to the Challenger shuttle disaster of January 1986.

Usage

Challenger

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 23 observations on the following 3 variables.

Date

Data of launch

Temperature

Air temperature at launch (F)

Incident

Binary variable, 1 if one of the 0-rings on one of the booster rockets was damaged, 0 otherwise

References

Dala, S.~R., Fowlkes, E.~B., Hoadley, B (1989). Risk analysis of the space shuttle: pre-Challenger prediction of failure. J.~American Statistical Association, 84, 945-957.