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Sample Data Sets

Ship Data

The Ship data set contains data from an investigation of wave damage to cargo ships (McCullagh and Nelder; 1989). The purpose of the investigation was to set standards for hull construction. There is one observation per ship.

The following list describes each variable:

type

type of ship

year

year of construction

period

period of operation

months

aggregate months of service

y

number of damage incidents

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