Atlantic hurricanes {DDPM}

The data show the number of major Atlantic hurricanes

Description

The function gives the number of major Atlantic hurricanes.

Usage

data_hurricanes

Arguments

data_hurricanes

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

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.

Value

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

Author(s)

Muhammad Imran

R implementation and documentation: Muhammad Imran [e-mail].

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

x<-data_hurricanes
summary(x)
table (x)