- Author
- Thomas, I. | Qu, J. | Hasofer, A. M.
- Title
- Identifying Important Factors Affecting Civilian Fatality in Apartment Fires.
- Coporate
- CESARE Victoria Univ., Australia
- Report
- Volume 1
- Book or Conf
- Interflam 2007. (Interflam '07). International Interflam Conference, 11th Proceedings. Volume 1. September 3-5, 2007, London, England, 223-234 p., 2007
- Keywords
- egress | evacuation | apartments | building fires | fire fatalities | fire data | fire safety | design applications | occupants | NFIRS | fire statistics | data analysis | equations
- Identifiers
- National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS); summary of USA apartment fire data; input factor categories used in the NFIRS database; detail of input factor categories; binomial generalized linear model; analysis of deviance of civilian fatality (binomial regression); analysis of deviance of number of civilian fatalities (poisson regression); relationship between input factor categories, fatalities and fatal fires; summary of the corresponding values of categories of all input factors; probabilities of a fatal fire for several combinations of input factors