A Note on Order Statistics and Property Losses from Catastrophic Hurricanes and Floods in the USA
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.......................................................................................................................... iii About the Author..............................................................................................................iv A Note on Order Statistics and Property Losses from Catastrophic Hurricanes and Floods in the USA .............................................................................................................1 Available Data Sets ...........................................................................................................2 Rank Order Statistics and Power Law Distributions.........................................................4 Tropical Cyclones and Hurricanes ....................................................................................7 Floods ..............................................................................................................................12 Conclusions .....................................................................................................................15 References .......................................................................................................................17
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تاریخ انتشار 2000