Predicting losses of residential structures in the state of Florida by the public hurricane loss evaluation model

Statistical Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 552-573

  Hamid, Shahid ^a   Golam Kibria, B M ^a   Gulati, Sneh ^a   Powell, Mark ^b   Annane, Bachir ^c   Cocke, Steve ^d   Pinelli, Jean Paul ^e   Gurley, Kurt ^f   Chen, Shu Ching ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Damage; Goodness of fit; Hurricane; Insurance loss; Poisson; Regression; Sensitivity; Uncertainty; Validation; Wind model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953682956     PISSN: 15723127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stamet.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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