R/hurricane.R

#' Data on Atlantic hurricanes in the U.S. between 1950 and 2012.
#'
#' A dataset for the study conducted by Jung et al. (2014) in
#' Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes.
#'
#' @format A data frame with 94 rows and 12 variables:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{Year}{Year in which the hurricane landed on U.S.}
#'   \item{Name}{Name of the hurricane.}
#'   \item{MasFem}{Femininity index of the hurricane name collected
#'   by Jung et al. (1 - very masculine; 11 - very feminine).}
#'   \item{MinPressure_before}{Minimum pressure of the hurricane
#'   at the time of landfall in the U.S. (original).}
#'   \item{Minpressure_Updated_2014}{Minimum pressure of the hurricane
#'   at the time of landfall in the U.S. (updated).}
#'   \item{Gender_MF}{Gender indicator for the hurricane name based
#'   on \code{MasFem} index (1 - \code{MasFem} > 6; 0 otherwise).}
#'   \item{Category}{Hurricane category on a scale of 1 to 5,
#'   with 5 being the most severe.}
#'   \item{alldeaths}{Number of fatalities.}
#'   \item{NDAM}{Normalized damage in 2013 U.S. million dollars.}
#'   \item{Elapsed.Yrs}{Time since hurricane.}
#'   \item{Source}{Source from where the data was gathered.}
#'   \item{HighestWindSpeed}{Maximum wind speed.}
#'   \item{MasFem_MTUrk}{Femininity index of the hurricane name collected
#'   by Simonsohn et al.}
#'   \item{NDAM15}{Normalized damage in 2015 U.S. million dollars.}
#' }
#' @details
#' The dataset was collected by Jung et al. in their study
#' \emph{Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes}.
#' Their study didn't include hurricanes Katrina and Audrey which were
#' deemed as outliers. Simonsohn et al. collected the extra data for
#' \emph{Specification curve analysis} including an additional femininity 
#' index based on an MTUrk survey and updated normalized damage amount in 2015 
#' U.S. dollars.
#'
#' This dataset includes data prepared by Jung et al. (2014) as well as those
#' prepared by Simonsohn et al. (2020). Specifically, all data on Katrina and
#' Audrey are from Simonsohn et al. (2020) except minimum pressure updated
#' in 2014. They were retrieved from
#' \href{https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html}{
#' Continental United States Hurricane Impacts/Landfalls 1851-2021} table
#' maintained by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
#' Maximum wind speed, femininity index from MTUrk survey, and
#' 2015 damage amounts are also from Simonsohn et al. (2020).
#'
#' @source
#' Kiju Jung, Sharon Shavitt, Madhu Viswanathan, and Joseph M. Hilbe.
#' (2014). "Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes."
#' \emph{Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, 111(24), 8782-8787.
#' \doi{10.1073/pnas.1402786111}
#' @source
#' Uri Simonsohn, Joseph P. Simmons, and Leif D. Nelson. (2020).
#' “Specification curve analysis” \emph{Nature Human Behaviour},
#' 4, 1208–14. \doi{10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z}
#'
"hurricane"

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