Statistical Analysis of Natural Disasters and Related Losses - Pisarenko, V.F.; Rodkin, M.V.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
The statistical methods of disaster analysis -- The heavy-tail distributions and their properties -- The contribution of maximum effect to the total, summarized effect under different distributions -- The stable approach to the risk assessment: estimation of quantiles of maximum effect -- Non-stationary natural processes, the "operational time" method -- The comparative study of disaster statistics for various natural disasters -- Earthquakes (energy, ground acceleration) -- Floods, hurricanes (victims, overall economic losses, insured losses) -- Tornadoes (victims, overall economic losses, insured losses).
Keywords: Natural disasters; Geophysics; Statistics .; Natural Hazards; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences