---
data_dictionary: titanic.txt

description: >
  The Titanic was a large cruise ship, the biggest of its kind in 1912. It was
  thought to be unsinkable, but when it set sail from England to America in its
  maiden voyage, it struck an iceberg and sank, killing many of the passengers
  and crew. You can get fairly good data on the characteristics of passengers 
  who died and compare them to those that survived. The data indicate a strong 
  effect due to age and gender, representing a philosophy of "women and children
  first" that held during the boarding of life boats.
 
additional_description: 
  http://www.statsci.org/data/general/titanic.html

download_url:
  - http://www.statsci.org/data/general/titanic.txt

format:
  tab-delimited

varnames: 
  first row of data
  
missing_value_code: 
  NA
 
size:
  rows: 1313
  columns: 5

vars:
  Name:
    label: Passenger name
  
  PClass:
    label: Passenger class
    scale: ordinal
    values: 1st, 2nd, 3rd
    
  Age:
    unit: years
    scale: ratio
    range: positive real numbers
    missing: NA
    
  Sex:
    scale: binary
    values: female, male

  Survived:
    scale: binary
    values:
      1: yes
      0: no
---