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Author
Hasofer, A. | Thomas, I. | Bruck, D. | Ball, M.
Title
Statistical Modelling of the Effect of Alcohol and Sound Intensity on Response to Fire Alarms.
Coporate
Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Australia
Book or Conf
Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Beijing, China, Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors, 507-518 p., 2005
Keywords
fire research | fire safety | fire science | human behavior | fire alarm systems | alcohol | human response | noise(sound) | auditory perception | response time | females | males | methodology | experiments | time | equations | people movement | sleep | threshold detectors (dosimeters) | probability
Identifiers
auditory fire cues; influence of sound type; influence of gender; stochastic modeling; random walk model; mean and standard deviation of behavioural response time (male and female); threshold and recognition probability of the random walk model; random walk with time-dependent absorbing boundary; probability function of the unrestricted random walk