On the principle of maximum entropy and the risk analysis of disaster loss

DOI10.1016/J.APM.2008.10.002MaRDI QIDQ965589zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lihua Feng, Weihu Hong

Publication date 24 April 2010

Published in Applied Mathematical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2008.10.002

zbMATH Keywords

risk analysisprinciple of maximum entropy\(P\)-III distribution functiondisaster lossrecurrence interval

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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