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View SchemaTime-evolving distribution of time lags between commercial airline disasters
| Authors | M. Ausloos, R. Lambiotte |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0509092 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509092 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.physa.2005.09.058 |
| Journal | Physica A, 362 (2006) 513-524 |
Abstract
We have studied the time lags between commercial line airplane disasters and their occurrence frequency till 2002, as obtained from a freely available website. We show that the time lags seem to be well described by Poisson random events, where the average events rate is itself a function of time, i.e. time-dependent Poisson events. This is likely due to the unsteady growth of the industry. The time lag distribution is compared with a truncated Tsallis distribution, thereby showing that the ''phenomenon'' has similarities with a Brownian particle with time dependent mass. We distinguish between ''other causes'' (or natural causes) and ''terrorism acts", the latter amounts to about 5 percents, but we find no drastic difference nor impact due to the latter on the overall distribution.
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