diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2cc25b9511d9e138fd4b640eb76a230f4557e209 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +In this project, we gather reproduction attempts from the Challenger +study. In particular, we try to reperform some of the analysis provided +in *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 +[here](https://studies2.hec.fr/jahia/webdav/site/hec/shared/sites/czellarv/acces_anonyme/OringJASA_1989.pdf) +(here is [the official JASA +webpage](http://www.jstor.org/stable/2290069)). + +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. + +