Research Article

Solving the Problem of Multiple-Criteria Building Design Decisions with respect to the Fire Safety of Occupants: An Approach Based on Probabilistic Modelling

Table 5

Descriptive measures of the samples of the times to untenable related to the first fire scenario and the three alternative floor plans in the hospital building under reconstruction ().

Sample statistic/distribution fitting resultsSample of Sample of Sample of

Sample size100100100
Mean, s126.3236.157.5
Median, s126.0236.057.25
Coeff. of variation, %2.021.664.26
Standardised skewness3.661.172.34
Standardised kurtosis2.190.371.75
Minimum, s14.7223.051.75
Maximum, s29.0245.065.75
KS-DN for normal distribution/ value0.1015/0.25550.071/0.69380.0912/0.3805
KS-DN for lognormal distribution/ value0.1039/0.23060.0738/0.64710.0826/0.5156
KS-DN for Gumbel distribution/ value0.1584/0.01320.1179/0.12420.0886/0.4175
Fitted distributionNormalNormalLognormal
Estimate of the 1st parameter123.33 (mean)236.1 (mean)4.05 (scale)
Estimate of the 2nd parameter2.56 (std. dev.)3.91 (std. dev.)0.04 (shape)

Parameter of the fitted distribution.