airline_flights.hist: JFK Airport Airline Flights Histogram-Valued Dataset

In dataSDA: Datasets and Basic Statistics for Symbolic Data Analysis

JFK Airport Airline Flights Histogram-Valued Dataset

Description

Histogram-valued dataset of 16 airlines flying into JFK Airport. Six variables (Flight Time, Taxi In, Arrival Delay, Taxi Out, Departure Delay, Weather Delay) recorded as frequency distributions. This is the wide (flat table) format; see airline_flights2.modal for the modal-valued version.

Usage

data(airline_flights.hist)

Format

A data frame with 16 observations (Airline1–Airline16) and 17 numeric columns representing 6 histogram variables in wide format:

• Flight Time(<120), Flight Time([120, 220]), Flight Time(>220): Flight time distribution (3 bins).

• Taxi In(<4), Taxi In([4, 10]), Taxi In(>10): Taxi-in time distribution (3 bins).

• Arrival Delay(<0), Arrival Delay([0, 60]), Arrival Delay(>60): Arrival delay distribution (3 bins).

• Taxi Out(<16), Taxi Out([16, 30]), Taxi Out(>30): Taxi-out time distribution (3 bins).

• Departure Delay(<0), Departure Delay([0, 60]), Departure Delay(>60): Departure delay distribution (3 bins).

• Weather Delay(No), Weather Delay(Yes): Weather delay distribution (2 bins).

Metadata

Sample size (n)	16
Variables (p)	17
Subject area	Transportation
Symbolic format	Histogram
Analytical tasks	Clustering, Descriptive statistics

References

Billard, L. and Diday, E. (2006). Symbolic Data Analysis. Wiley. Table 2.7.

Examples

data(airline_flights.hist)

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