R: Failures of Air-conditioning Equipment

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## Failures of Air-conditioning Equipment

### Description

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.

### Usage

    aircondit

### Format

The data frames contain the following column:

`hours`

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

### Source

The data were taken from

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

### 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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