TitanicSurvival {carData} | R Documentation

## Survival of Passengers on the Titanic

### Description

Information on the survival status, sex, age, and passenger class of 1309 passengers in the Titanic disaster of 1912.

### Usage

    TitanicSurvival

### Format

A data frame with 1309 observations on the following 4 variables.

`survived`

  `no` or `yes`.

`sex`

  `female` or `male`

`age`

  in years (and for some children, fractions of a year); age is missing for 263 of the passengers.

`passengerClass`

  `1st`, `2nd`, or `3rd` class.

### Details

This is part of a larger data set compiled by Thomas Cason. Many additional details are given in the sources cited below.

### Source

Data set `titanic3` from http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataSets.

### References

http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/

F. E. Harrell, Jr. (2001) Regression Modeling Strategies New York: Springer.

### Examples

    summary(TitanicSurvival)

[Package carData version 3.0-2 Index]