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Atlantic hurricanes: The data show the number of major Atlantic hurricanes

Description

The function gives the number of major Atlantic hurricanes.

Usage

data_hurricanes

Value

data_hurricanes gives the number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year to have made landfall in the US from 1987 through 2012.

Arguments

data_hurricanes

A vector of (non-negative integer) count values.

Author

Muhammad Imran

R implementation and documentation: Muhammad Imran imranshakoor84@yahoo.com.

Details

The data show the number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year to have made landfall in the US from 1987 through 2012. Recently, they were used by Beckett et al. (2014) and fitted by the zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution.

References

Beckett, S., Jee, J., Ncube, T., Pompilus, S., Washington, Q., Singh, A., & Pal, N. (2014). Zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution: Parameter estimation and applications to model data from natural calamities. Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, 7(6), 751-767.

See Also

data_earthq

Examples

Run this code
x<-data_hurricanes
summary(x)
table (x)

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