shuttle {MASS} | R Documentation

## Space Shuttle Autolander Problem

### Description

The `shuttle` data frame has 256 rows and 7 columns. The first six columns are categorical variables giving example conditions; the seventh is the decision. The first 253 rows are the training set, the last 3 the test conditions.

### Usage

    data(shuttle)

### Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

`stability`
  Stable positioning or not (`stab / xstab`)
`error`
  Size of error (`MM / SS / LX / XL`)
`sign`
  Sign of error, positive or negative (`pp / nn`)
`wind`
  Wind sign (`head / tail`)
`magn`
  Wind strength (`Light / Medium / Strong / Out of Range`)
`vis`
  Visibility (`yes / no`)
`use`
  Use the autolander or not

### Source

D. Michie (1989) Problems of computer-aided concept formation. In Applications of Expert Systems 2, ed. J. R. Quinlan, Turing Institute Press / Addison-Wesley, pp. 310–333.

### References

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S. Fourth edition. Springer.

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