Table 5 shows the confidence intervals for the mean over flight height at the centerline of the PT.
The small variation in the arrival paths decreases the widths of their confidence intervals.
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Table 5 Confidence Bounds for the Mean Heights
Runway
Arrival/
Departure Mean
Standard
Deviation
Confidence Bounds
Lower (95%) Upper (95%)
17C
Arrival
260
39.7
258
262
18R
Arrival
255
41.0
253
257
35C
Arrival
206
32.0
204
208
36L
Arrival
209
26.6
207
210
17R
Departure
1260
294
1245
1270
18L
Departure
1200
277
1186
1212
35L
Departure
1340
318
1326
1356
36R
Departure
1370
285
1357
1386
Normal Distribution Tests
The researchers have interest in determining if the height data is normally distributed or may be
approximated by the Normal distribution in order to assess the risk posed by aircraft flying over
the PT. The Chi-square goodness-of-fit test is used to test whether the distribution of a data set
follows a particular pattern, in this case the normal distribution. The goodness-of-fit test is a
hypothesis test with the following hypotheses:
H
0
: The data follow the normal distribution
H
A
: The data do not follow the normal distribution
Before computing a Chi-square test statistic, the height data must be standardized (z-value) by
subtracting the mean and dividing each value by the standard deviation. Then, the height data is
divided into ten bins of z-values as shown in Table 6. The corresponding normal probabilities
and expected number of height observations for each runway dataset are computed. A sample
Chi-square test statistic computation for one runway is shown in Table 6.
TABLE 6. Runway 18R Arrival Height Chi-square Test
Z value
Observed count
Normal Prob Exp Count (Ob-Ex)
χ
2
(<-2.0)
8
0.023
31
-23
16.90
(-2.0, -1.5)
47
0.044
59
-12
2.43
(-1.5, -1.0)
133
0.092
123
10
0.77
(-1.0, -0.5)
247
0.150
201
46
10.53
(-0.5, 0.0)
270
0.191
256
14
0.77
(0.0, 0.5)
304
0.191
256
48
9.02
(0.5, 1.0)
142
0.150
201
-59
17.32
(1.0, 1.5)
105
0.092
123
-18
2.71
(1.5,2.0)
38
0.044
59
-21
7.45
(>2.0)
46
0.023
31
15
7.48
1340
1
1340
75.37
Table 7 displays the results of the Chi-square test for the eight runways at DFW under study.
The height data for runway 35L is normally distributed based on the Chi-square test while the
remaining runways cannot reject the Chi-square test at a 95% significance level. The runways
that cannot be proven to be normally distributed appear to have similar anomalies to those
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observed in Table 6 where more of the data is concentrated in the middle and beyond the UCL as
shown in Figure 3. While the height data for most of the runways is not normally distributed, the
types of anomalies that prevent their distributions from being classified as normal make the
assumption of normality conservative when considering the lower end of the distribution. In the
next section, this assumption will be made for the risk analysis related to flying over the PT.
Table 7 Chi-square Test Results
Runway Observations
Test
Statistic
Rejection Boundary
(
= .05)
Result
17C
1363
133
16.9
Reject H
0
17R
2155
67.8
16.9
Reject H
0
18L
1730
33.8
16.9
Reject H
0
18R
1340
75.4
16.9
Reject H
0
35C
1276
50.6
16.9
Reject H
0
35L
1652
8.6
16.9
Fail to Reject H
0
36L
1086
47.8
16.9
Reject H
0
36R
1475
25.7
16.9
Reject H
0
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