- Author
- Lin, Y. S.
- Title
- Life Risk Analysis in Residential Building Fires.
- Coporate
- Central Police University, Kwei-San, Ta-Kang, Tauyuan, Taiwan, 333, ROC
- Journal
- Journal of Fire Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 6, 491-504, November 2004
- Keywords
- residential buildings | building fires | risk analysis | fire fighting | escape means | regression rate | injuries | factors | fire prevention
- Identifiers
- difficulty degree of fire escape; logistic regression; odds ratio; 419 cases in residential building fires during 1998-2000 in some area of Taiwan are examined; influencing variables or factors related to the activities of pre-fire as well as during fire; casualties and non-casualties; frequency of fatal or injured cases and non-fatal or non-injured cases; data measurement; factor analysis and reliability analysis of knowledge of fire prevention; correlation coefficients between factors and fire life risk; accuracy of prediction for logistic regression model