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Historical disaster statistics in Zealand from 1968 to 2014.

Usage

data(nzcathist)

Format

nzcathist 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.

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".

Location

a character string describing the location.

OriginalCost

Original cost in million of Australian dollars (NZD).

NormCost2011

Normed cost in million of 2011 New Zealand dollars (NZD).

NormCost2014

Normed cost in million of 2014 New Zealand dollars (NZD).

Examples


# (1) load of data
#
data(nzcathist)

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