A compound poisson model for the annual area burned by forest fires in the province of Ontario

Environmetrics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 457-469

  Podur, Justin J ^a   Martell, David L ^a   Stanford, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Area burned; Compound poisson distribution; Forest fires; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; INSURANCE SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POISSON RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77954821908     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.996     Document Type: Article

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