TITLE:
A Brief Parametric Analysis of Catastrophic or Disastrous Hurricanes That Have Hit the Florida Keys between 1900 and 2000
AUTHORS:
J. M. D’Andrea
KEYWORDS:
Florida Keys, Hurricanes, Parametric Analysis, Statistics, Probability Distributions, Latitude, Confidence Intervals
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Vol.8 No.1,
February
23,
2018
ABSTRACT: The most intense and catastrophic hurricanes on record
to hit the Florida Keys during 1900 to 1950 were in 1919, and 1935. From 1950 to
2000, the most intense hurricanes to hit or affect the Florida Keys were in 1960,
1965, and 1992. In this paper, we will present a brief parametric analysis of the
hurricanes that have hit the Florida Keys in the last 100 years. This analysis will
include the descriptive statistics, best fit probability distribution of the latitude
of the catastrophic hurricanes and a confidence interval that detects the average
latitude of hurricanes (category 3 or higher) which have hit
the Florida Keys in the last 100 years.