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Hi,

Did anyone ever complete a composite analysis of the World Base Fatality List? Sort of grouping the accidents by their most likely cause.

I started looking at it and thought it would be better assembled by someone with more experience. Some people said a while ago that Tom was working on something like this...

http://www.dropzone.com/...ty_Analysis_P269370/

If anyone has something like this I'd love to take a look!

Thanks,

cp

Yep. I've got a fairly good analysis. Most of the work was done by an Irish jumper (thanks MT!), and I've added a bit to it.

Email me if you want to see it.

Edit: I've attached the graphs to this posting.

Very useful data, Tom. The one that jumped out at me was "third party error." I'm a bit obsessive about PCA confguration, etc. - and this is likely to make me more so.

Peace,

D-d0g

What was the chimney strike....?

It would be more useful if we could see how many fatalities each graph represented. The ratios are interesting but without the context of the aggregate numbers its hard to interpret.

Very cool, though.

_Am

#57

The full spreadsheet is too large to attach to a DZ.com posting. Email me if you want to see the data.

Total Fatalities: 70
Building: 7
Antenna: 7
Span: 8
Earth: 48
Other: 1

The only sample that is really large enough to be "statistically relevant" is probably the Earth fatalities.

That was what I suspected, and was looking for. Thanks.

_Am