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Modeling Impact of Hurricane Damages on Income Distribution in the Coastal U.S.
This article examines the impact of catastrophic
hurricane events on income distribution in hurricane
states in the United States. Media claims have been
made and the perception created that the most damaging
impact ...
Redefining standards for body mass index of the US population based on BRFSS data using mixtures
Using body mass index (BMI) data from 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, we test a spectrum of single parametric skewed distributions as well as Gaussian mixture densities to determine best distributional ...
Examining the Impact on Mortality Arising from Climate Change: Important Findings for the Insurance Industry
In this paper, we analyze the impact on overall mortality rates for the general US population arising from climate change and the weather events resulting in property damages for the period 1968–2013. We develop a fixed ...