"# Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger Prediction of Failure"
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"In this document we reperform some of the analysis provided in \n",
"*Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger Prediction of Failure* by *Siddhartha R. Dalal, Edward B. Fowlkes, Bruce Hoadley* published in *Journal of the American Statistical Association*, Vol. 84, No. 408 (Dec., 1989), pp. 945-957 and available at http://www.jstor.org/stable/2290069. \n",
"\n",
"On the fourth page of this article, they indicate that the maximum likelihood estimates of the logistic regression using only temperature are: $\\hat{\\alpha}=5.085$ and $\\hat{\\beta}=-0.1156$ and their asymptotic standard errors are $s_{\\hat{\\alpha}}=3.052$ and $s_{\\hat{\\beta}}=0.047$. The Goodness of fit indicated for this model was $G^2=18.086$ with 21 degrees of freedom. Our goal is to reproduce the computation behind these values and the Figure 4 of this article, possibly in a nicer looking way."
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"## Technical information on the computer on which the analysis is run"
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"We will be using the python3 language using the pandas, statsmodels, numpy, matplotlib and seaborn libraries."
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"#!pip install statsmodels \n",
"#!pip install seaborn"
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"3.7.6 (default, Jan 8 2020, 19:59:22) \n",
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"uname_result(system='Linux', node='H2-SCHMIDER', release='5.3.0-46-generic', version='#38~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 31 04:17:56 UTC 2020', machine='x86_64', processor='x86_64')\n",
"Let's assume O-rings independently fail with the same probability which solely depends on temperature. A logistic regression should allow us to estimate the influence of temperature."
"The maximum likelyhood estimator of the intercept and of Temperature are thus $\\hat{\\alpha}=5.0849$ and $\\hat{\\beta}=-0.1156$. This **corresponds** to the values from the article of Dalal *et al.* The standard errors are $s_{\\hat{\\alpha}} = 7.477$ and $s_{\\hat{\\beta}} = 0.115$, which is **different** from the $3.052$ and $0.04702$ reported by Dallal *et al.* The deviance is $3.01444$ with 21 degrees of freedom. I cannot find any value similar to the Goodness of fit ($G^2=18.086$) reported by Dalal *et al.* There seems to be something wrong. Oh I know, I haven't indicated that my observations are actually the result of 6 observations for each rocket launch. Let's indicate these weights (since the weights are always the same throughout all experiments, it does not change the estimates of the fit but it does influence the variance estimates)."
"**I think I have managed to correctly compute and plot the uncertainty of my prediction.** Although the shaded area seems very similar to [the one obtained by with R](https://app-learninglab.inria.fr/moocrr/gitlab/moocrr-session3/moocrr-reproducibility-study/tree/master/challenger.pdf), I can spot a few differences (e.g., the blue point for temperature 63 is outside)... Could this be a numerical error ? Or a difference in the statistical method ? It is not clear which one is \"right\"."
