Fat Tailed Distributions for Deaths in Conflicts and Disasters
We study the statistics of human deaths from wars and similar man-made conflicts as well as natural disasters. The probability distribution of number of people killed in natural disasters as well as man-made situations show power law decay for the largest sizes, with similar exponent values. Compari...
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World Scientific Publishing
2017-03-01
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| Series: | Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/S2424942417400072 |