R Dataset / Package Ecdat / Accident

On this R-data statistics page, you will find information about the Accident data set which pertains to Ship Accidents . The Accident data set is found in the Ecdat R package. You can load the Accident data set in R by issuing the following command at the console data("Accident"). This will load the data into a variable called Accident. If R says the Accident data set is not found, you can try installing the package by issuing this command install.packages("Ecdat") and then attempt to reload the data with the library() command. If you need to download R, you can go to the R project website. You can download a CSV (comma separated values) version of the Accident R data set. The size of this file is about 1,113 bytes.

Ship Accidents

Description

a cross-section

number of observations : 40

Usage

data(Accident)

Format

A dataframe containing :

type: ship type, a factor with levels (A,B,C,D,E)
constr: year constructed, a factor with levels (C6064,C6569,C7074,C7579)
operate: year operated, a factor with levels (O6074,O7579)
months: measure of service amount
acc: accidents

Source

McCullagh, P. and J. Nelder (1983) Generalized linear methods, New York:Chapman and Hall.

References

Greene, W.H. (2003) Econometric Analysis, Prentice Hall, http://www.prenhall.com/greene/greene1.html, Table F21.3.

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