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Measure vs. Percentile

Carrier violations or crashes are weighted by time and severity to produce a measure for that carrier in each BASIC. The measure is then used to assign that carrier to a percentile rank containing carriers’ information in similar safety event groups. Expand for more information.

Carrier violations or crashes are weighted by time and severity to produce a measure for that carrier in each BASIC. The measure only considers individual performance based on 24 months of data, with a measure of 0 indicating best performance. The measure is then used to assign that carrier to a percentile rank containing carriers’ information in similar safety event groups. The graph below shows how the carrier’s measure correlates with its percentile rank over a selected period of time.

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Measure Percentile
0 0
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0.47 71
0.48 72
0.49 73
0.51 74
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0.55 77
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0.61 80
0.63 81
0.65 82
0.68 83
0.70 84
0.73 85
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0.90 90
0.94 91
1.00 92
1.06 93
1.14 94
1.24 95
1.38 96
1.59 97
1.86 98
2.53 99
8.92 100