Passengers on the Titanic

Keywords: binomial regression, contingency table

Description

The data give the survival status of passengers on the Titanic, together with their names, age, sex and passenger class.

About half of the ages for the 3rd Class passengers are missing, although a good many of these could be filled in from the original source below.


	Variable		Description

	Name		Recorded name of passenger
	PClass		Passenger class: 1st, 2nd or 3rd
	Age		Age in years
	Sex		male or female
	Survived		1 = Yes, 0 = No

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Data File (tab-delimited text)

Source

Hinde, Philip (1998). Encyclopedia Titanica.

Analysis

Age, sex and passenger class are all strong predictors of individual survival. There should also be strong interactions of passenger class with the other two variables.