Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Tutorial B

Data Mining for Aviation Safety

Using Data Mining Recipe “Automatized Data Mining” from STATISTICA

Alan Stolzer, Ph.D.

OUTLINE

Airline Safety

SDR Database

Preparing the Data for our Tutorial

Data Mining Approach

Data Mining Algorithm Error Rate

Conclusion

The following tutorial will use the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Service Difficulty Report (SDR) database to explore factors that lead to undesirable events called unscheduled landings and determine which data mining (DM) model or models appear to be the most predictive of that event.

It should be noted from the outset that this is a greatly simplified exemplar study. As will be described later, the database used is very complex, and much of it is in text form. Since ...