Failures of Air-conditioning Equipment

Arguments

hours The time interval in hours between successive failures of the air-conditioning equipment

SUMMARY

Proschan (1963) reported on the times between failures of the air-conditioning equipment in 10 Boeing 720 aircraft. The aircondit data frame contains the intervals for the ninth aircraft while aircondit7 contains those for the seventh aircraft.

Both data frames have just one column. Note that the data have been sorted into increasing order.

DATA DESCRIPTION

The data frames contain the following column:

SOURCE

The data were taken from

Cox, D.R. and Snell, E.J. (1981) Applied Statistics: Principles and Examples. Chapman and Hall.

OTHER REFERENCES

Davison, A.C. and Hinkley, D.V. (1997) Bootstrap Methods and Their Application. Cambridge University Press.

Proschan, F. (1963) Theoretical explanation of observed decreasing failure rate. Technometrics, 5, 375-383.


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