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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
0.02 1
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0.03 3
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0.04 5
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0.08 10
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0.20 24
0.21 25
0.22 26
0.24 27
0.25 28
0.26 29
0.27 30
0.28 31
0.29 32
0.30 33
0.31 34
0.32 35
0.34 36
0.35 37
0.36 38
0.38 39
0.39 40
0.41 41
0.42 42
0.43 43
0.45 44
0.47 45
0.48 46
0.50 47
0.51 48
0.53 49
0.55 50
0.56 51
0.58 52
0.60 53
0.62 54
0.64 55
0.66 56
0.68 57
0.70 58
0.73 59
0.75 60
0.77 61
0.79 62
0.82 63
0.85 64
0.87 65
0.89 66
0.92 67
0.95 68
0.98 69
1.01 70
1.04 71
1.07 72
1.11 73
1.15 74
1.18 75
1.23 76
1.28 77
1.32 78
1.36 79
1.41 80
1.45 81
1.51 82
1.56 83
1.62 84
1.69 85
1.76 86
1.85 87
1.92 88
2.01 89
2.10 90
2.19 91
2.31 92
2.44 93
2.60 94
2.78 95
3.03 96
3.31 97
3.76 98
4.45 99
8.61 100