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Railway Shunter Accident Data (1937–1947)
Description
Accident records for 122 experienced railway shunters across two historical periods.
Usage
shacc
Format
A data frame with 122 rows and 2 variables:
- X
Number of accidents during the 6-year period from 1937 to 1942.
- Y
Number of accidents during the 5-year period from 1943 to 1947.
This dataset is useful for analyzing accident rates before and after possible policy or operational changes.
References
Arbous, A. G., & Kerrich, J. E. (1951). Accident statistics and the concept of accident-proneness. Biometrics, 7(4), 340. doi:10.2307/3001656
Ghosh, I., Marques, F., & Chakraborty, S. (2025). A form of bivariate binomial conditionals distributions. Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 54(2), 534–553. doi:10.1080/03610926.2024.2315294
Examples
data(shacc)
head(shacc)
plot(shacc$X, shacc$Y, xlab = "Accidents 1937–42", ylab = "Accidents 1943–47")
[Package BCD version 0.1.0 Index]