These data are used in the book "Computational Statistics" 
by G.H. Givens and J.A. Hoeting.

Name: coal.dat
Chapter: 6,7
Discussed in: Problems 6.4, 7.6

Source:  Table 1, page 395 of B. P. Carlin, A. E. Gelfand and
A. F. M. Smith (1992) .Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Changepoint
Problems,. Applied Statistics, 41:2, 389-405

Description: Time series of the numbers of disasters at coal mines
annually between 1851 and 1962.   

Variable labels: year, disasters