Abstract
The application of statistical technique exposed in Chap. 2 to some concrete catalogs of natural processes and related losses are presented: global catalog of seismic moments; catalog of peak ground acceleration at five sites in Japan; catalog of victims of earthquakes-tsunamis, Japan; catalog of victims of floods, USA; catalog of economic losses from floods, USA; catalog of victims from tornadoes, USA; catalog of economic losses from hurricanes, USA. The Kolmogorov test is used as a powerful statistical tool for testing hypotheses on distribution under study. A modification of the Kolmogorov test is presented in the case of presence of estimated parameters in the hypothetical distribution function. Main statistical results are summarized in Tables 3.1, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3.
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Pisarenko, V.F., Rodkin, M.V. (2014). The Disaster Statistics for Various Natural Disasters. In: Statistical Analysis of Natural Disasters and Related Losses. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01454-8_3
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