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etitanic: Titanic data with incomplete cases removed

Description

Titanic data with incomplete cases, passenger names, and other details removed.

Format

A data frame with 1046 observations on 6 variables.

pclass

passenger class, unordered factor: 1st 2nd 3rd

survived

integer: 0 or 1

sex

unordered factor: male female

age

age in years, min 0.167 max 80.0

sibsp

number of siblings or spouses aboard, integer: 0...8

parch

number of parents or children aboard, integer: 0...6

Source

This dataset is included in the earth package because it is a convenient vehicle for illustrating earth's GLM and factor handling. The dataset was compiled by Frank Harrell and Robert Dawson: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic.html See also: http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/pub/Main/DataSets/titanic3info.txt. For this version of the Titanic data, passenger details and incomplete cases were deleted and the name changed to etitanic to minimize confusion with other versions ("e" because it is part of the earth package). Note that survived is an integer (it should arguably be a logical). In this data the crew are conspicuous by their absence. Contents of etitanic:

         pclass survived    sex    age sibsp parch
    1       1st        1 female 29.000     0     0
    2       1st        1   male  0.917     1     2
    3       1st        0 female  2.000     1     2
    4       1st        0   male 30.000     1     2
    5       1st        0 female 25.000     1     2
    ...
    1309    3rd        0   male 29.000     0     0
    

How etitanic was built:

    load("titanic3") # from Harrell's web site
    # discard name, ticket, fare, cabin, embarked, body, home.dest
    etitanic <- titanic3[,c(1,2,4,5,6,7)]
    etitanic <- etitanic[!is.na(etitanic$age),]
    save(etitanic, file="etitanic.rda")
    

References

Further details and analyses of the Titanic data may be found in:

F. Harrell (2001) Regression Modeling Strategies with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/RmS

See Also

earth