Titanic (Data file: White star) The Titanic was a British luxury passenger liner that sank when it struck an iceberg about 640 km south of Newfoundland on April 14–15, 1912, on its maiden voyage to...

Titanic (Data file: White star) The Titanic was a British luxury passenger liner that sank when it struck an iceberg about 640 km south of Newfoundland on April 14–15, 1912, on its maiden voyage to New York City from Southampton, England. Of 2201 known passengers and crew, only 711 are reported to have survived. These data from Dawson (1995) classify the people on board the ship according to their sex as male or female; age, either child or adult; and class, either first, second, third, or crew. Not all combinations of the three-factors occur in the data, since no children were members of the crew. For each age/sex/class combination, the number of people m and the number surviving Survre also reported. The data are shown in Table 12.8.

survival rates for various factor combinations.