aircondit:
Failures of Air-conditioning Equipment
Description
Proschan (1963) reported on the times between failures of the air-conditioning
equipment in 10 Boeing 720 aircraft. The aircondit data frame contains
the intervals for the ninth aircraft while aircondit7 contains those for the
seventh aircraft.
Both data frames have just one column. Note that the data have been sorted
into increasing order.
Format
The data frames contain the following column:
hours-
The time interval in hours between successive failures of the air-conditioning
equipment
Source
The data were taken from Cox, D.R. and Snell, E.J. (1981)
Applied Statistics: Principles and Examples. Chapman and Hall.References
Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997)
Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.
Proschan, F. (1963) Theoretical explanation of observed decreasing failure
rate. Technometrics, 5, 375-383.