Space Shuttle Autolander Problem

SUMMARY:

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.

DATA DESCRIPTION:

This data frame contains the following columns:

ARGUMENTS:

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.