Variables:
A data frame with 94 observations on the following 14 variables.
- Name
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Hurricane name
- Year
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Numeric
- LF.WindsMPH
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Maximum sustained windspeed (>= 1 minute) to occur along the US coast. Prior to 1980, this is estimated from the maximum windspeed associated with the Saffir-Simpson index at landfall. If 2 or more landfalls, the maximum is taken
- LF.PressureMB
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Atmospheric pressure at landfall in millibars. If 2 or more landfalls, the minimum is taken
- LF.times
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Date of first landfall
- BaseDam2014
-
Property damage (millions of 2014 US dollars)
- BaseDamage
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Property damage (in millions of dollars for that year)
- NDAM2014
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Damage, had hurricane appeared in 2014
- AffectedStates
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Affected states (2-digit abbreviations), pasted together
- firstLF
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Date of first landfall
- deaths
-
Number of continental US direct and indirect deaths
- mf
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Gender of name; a factor with levels f m
Details
An earlier version of these data was the subject of a controversial paper that claimed to have found that hurricanes with female names, presumably because taken less seriously, did more human damage after adjusting for the severity of the storm than those with male names.
