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Data from Dalal et al. (1989) about O-ring failures in the NASA space shuttle program. The damage index comes from a discussion of the data by Tufte (1997).

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A data frame with 23 observations and 7 variables.

FlightNumber

Number of space shuttle flight.

Temperature

temperature during start (in degrees F).

Pressure

pressure.

Fail

did any O-ring failures occur? (no, yes).

nFailures

how many (of six) 0-rings failed?.

Damage

damage index.

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Source

Michael Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data: http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/ftp/sas/vcd/catdata/orings.sas

References

S. Dalal, E. B. Fowlkes, B. Hoadly (1989), Risk analysis of the space shuttle: Pre-Challenger prediction of failure, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84, 945–957.

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

M. Friendly (2000), Visualizing Categorical Data. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.

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