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 7

Descriptive measures of the samples of travel times elapsed during the evacuation from the second floor ().

Sample statistic/distribution fitting resultsSample of Sample of Sample of

Sample size100100100
Mean, s19.7218.4722.0
Median, s19.518.3521.6
Coeff. of variation, %0.1340.180.14
Standardised skewness3.65531.00290.6941
Standardised kurtosis2.189āˆ’1.721āˆ’1.0195
Minimum, s14.712.615.8
Maximum, s29.025.728.9
KS-DN/ value (normal distr.)0.1118/0.16460.0631/0.82130.0658/0.7790
KS-DN/ value (lognormal d.)0.0890/0.41180.0650/0.79250.0516/0.9529
KS-DN/ value (Gumbel distr.)0.0687/0.73350.0744/0.63790.0723/0.6728
Fitted distributionGumbelNormalLognormal
Estimate of the 1st parameter18.51 (mode)18.47 (mean)3.08 (scale)
Estimate of the 2nd parameter2.148 (scale)3.32 (std. dev.)0.14 (shape)

Parameter of the fitted distribution.