Survival of Passengers on the Titanic

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 the now defunct http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/twiki/bin/view/Main/DataSets.

References

https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

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

Examples

summary(TitanicSurvival)
#>  survived      sex           age          passengerClass
#>  no :809   female:466   Min.   : 0.1667   1st:323       
#>  yes:500   male  :843   1st Qu.:21.0000   2nd:277       
#>                         Median :28.0000   3rd:709       
#>                         Mean   :29.8811                 
#>                         3rd Qu.:39.0000                 
#>                         Max.   :80.0000                 
#>                         NA's   :263