Flight Planning
Data Set 15 in Appendix B includes data about American Airline flights from New York (JFK airport) to Los Angeles (LAX airport). The data are from the Bureau of Transportation.
Critical Thinking
Use the methods from this chapter to address the following questions.
3. Arrival delay times are important because they can affect the plans of passengers. Explore the arrival delay times by using the methods of this chapter and comment on the results. Is there very small variation among the arrival delay times? Are there any outliers? What is the nature of the distribution of arrival delay times? Based on the results, are arrival delay times very predictable?
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