Multi-variate flood damage assessment: A tree-based data-mining approach

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-64

  Merz, B ^a   Kreibich, H ^a   Lall, U ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATA SET; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; FLOOD DAMAGE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLANNING METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

GERMANY;

EID: 84872230847     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-53-2013     Document Type: Article

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