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 6

Descriptive measures of the samples of the times to untenable related to the second fire scenario and the three alternative floor plans ().

Sample statistic/distribution fitting resultsSample of Sample of Sample of

Sample size100100100
Mean, s143.09123.6374.03
Median, s14412374
Coeff. of variation, %3.984.333.51
Standardised skewness0.192.031.01
Standardised kurtosisāˆ’1.050.9āˆ’0.55
Minimum, s132.0110.068.5
Maximum, s156.0139.080.5
KS-DN/ value (normal distr.)0.0914/0.37710.1125/0.15940.1075/0.1981
KS-DN/ value (lognormal d.)0.0979/0.29440.1038/0.23220.1008/0.2629
KS-DN/ value (Gumbel distr.)0.1294/0.07020.0868/0.44560.1314/0.0632
Fitted distributionNormalGumbelLognormal
Estimate of the 1st parameter143.09 (mean)121.09 (mode)4.30 (scale)
Estimate of the 2nd parameter5.69 (std. dev.)4.89 (scale)0.04 (shape)

Parameter of the fitted distribution.