Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena
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Resumo: | Catastrophic events, such as wars and terrorist attacks, tornadoes and hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, are always accompanied by a large number of casualties. The size distribution of these casualties has separately been shown to follow approximate power law (PL) distributions. In this paper, we analyze the statistical distributions of the number of victims of catastrophic phenomena, in particular, terrorism, and find double PL behavior. This means that the data sets are better approximated by two PLs instead of a single one. We plot the PL parameters, corresponding to several events, and observe an interesting pattern in the charts, where the lines that connect each pair of points defining the double PLs are almost parallel to each other. A complementary data analysis is performed by means of the computation of the entropy. The results reveal relationships hidden in the data that may trigger a future comprehensive explanation of this type of phenomena. |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomenaEntropy analysisCatastrophic events, such as wars and terrorist attacks, tornadoes and hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, are always accompanied by a large number of casualties. The size distribution of these casualties has separately been shown to follow approximate power law (PL) distributions. In this paper, we analyze the statistical distributions of the number of victims of catastrophic phenomena, in particular, terrorism, and find double PL behavior. This means that the data sets are better approximated by two PLs instead of a single one. We plot the PL parameters, corresponding to several events, and observe an interesting pattern in the charts, where the lines that connect each pair of points defining the double PLs are almost parallel to each other. A complementary data analysis is performed by means of the computation of the entropy. The results reveal relationships hidden in the data that may trigger a future comprehensive explanation of this type of phenomena.Hindawi Publishing CorporationRepositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do PortoMachado, J.A.TenreiroPinto, Carla M.A.Lopes, António M.2014-01-06T16:29:48Z20132013-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/3229eng1024-123X10.1155/2013/562320info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-03-13T12:43:00Zoai:recipp.ipp.pt:10400.22/3229Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T17:24:13.930314Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena Machado, J.A.Tenreiro Entropy analysis |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Power law and entropy analysis of catastrophic phenomena |
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Machado, J.A.Tenreiro |
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Machado, J.A.Tenreiro Pinto, Carla M.A. Lopes, António M. |
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Pinto, Carla M.A. Lopes, António M. |
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Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto |
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Machado, J.A.Tenreiro Pinto, Carla M.A. Lopes, António M. |
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Entropy analysis |
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Entropy analysis |
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Catastrophic events, such as wars and terrorist attacks, tornadoes and hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides, are always accompanied by a large number of casualties. The size distribution of these casualties has separately been shown to follow approximate power law (PL) distributions. In this paper, we analyze the statistical distributions of the number of victims of catastrophic phenomena, in particular, terrorism, and find double PL behavior. This means that the data sets are better approximated by two PLs instead of a single one. We plot the PL parameters, corresponding to several events, and observe an interesting pattern in the charts, where the lines that connect each pair of points defining the double PLs are almost parallel to each other. A complementary data analysis is performed by means of the computation of the entropy. The results reveal relationships hidden in the data that may trigger a future comprehensive explanation of this type of phenomena. |
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2013 |
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