The titanic and titanic2 data frames describe the survival status of individual passengers on the Titanic. The titanic data frame does not contain information from the crew, but it does contain actual ages of half of the passengers. The principal source for data about Titanic passengers is the Encyclopedia Titanica . The datasets used here were begun by a variety of researchers. The variables on our extracted dataset are pclass, survived, name, age, embarked, home.dest, room, ticket, boat, and sex.
Age is in years, and some infants had fractional values.
The titanic2 data frame has no missing data and includes records for the crew, but age is dichotomized at adult vs. child. These data were obtained from Robert Dawson , Saint Mary's University, E-mail . The variables are pclass, age, sex, survived. These data frames are useful for demonstrating many of the functions in Hmisc as well as demonstrating binary logistic regression analysis using the Design library. J Statistics Education , Vol.