Australian catastrophe historic — auscathist • CASdatasets

Historical disaster statistics in Australia from 1967 to 2014.

Usage

data(auscathist)

auscathist is a data frame of 9 columns:

Year: a numeric for the Year.
Quarter: a numeric for the quarter of the year.
Date: a character string for the date.
FirstDay: a Date object for the first day of natural catastrophe.
LastDay: a Date object for the last day of natural catastrophe, when available.
Event: a character string describing the event.
Type: a factor describing the event type among the list: "Cyclone", "Earthquake", "Flood", "Flood, Storm", "Hailstorm", "Other", "Power outage", "Storm", "Tornado", "Weather", "Bushfire".
Location: a character string describing the location.
OriginalCost: Original cost in million of Australian dollars (AUD).
NormCost2011: Normed cost in million of 2011 Australian dollars (AUD) taking into account inflation, change in wealth and population.
NormCost2014: Normed cost in million of 2014 Australian dollars (AUD) computed as the inflated cost NormCost2011 using CPI.


# (1) load of data
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data(auscathist)

# (2) plot of data
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plot(ecdf(auscathist$NormCost2014))