A dataset for the study conducted by Jung et al. (2014) in doi:10.1073/pnas.1402786111 Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes.
hurricaneA data frame with 94 rows and 12 variables:
Year in which the hurricane landed on U.S.
Name of the hurricane.
Femininity index of the hurricane name collected by Jung et al. (1 - very masculine; 11 - very feminine).
Minimum pressure of the hurricane at the time of landfall in the U.S. (original).
Minimum pressure of the hurricane at the time of landfall in the U.S. (updated).
Gender indicator for the hurricane name based
on MasFem index (1 - MasFem > 6; 0 otherwise).
Hurricane category on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most severe.
Number of fatalities.
Normalized damage in 2013 U.S. million dollars.
Time since hurricane.
Source from where the data was gathered.
Maximum wind speed.
Femininity index of the hurricane name collected by Simonsohn et al.
Normalized damage in 2015 U.S. million dollars.
Kiju Jung, Sharon Shavitt, Madhu Viswanathan, and Joseph M. Hilbe. (2014). "Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8782-8787. doi:10.1073/pnas.1402786111
Uri Simonsohn, Joseph P. Simmons, and Leif D. Nelson. (2020). “Specification curve analysis” Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1208–14. doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z
The dataset was collected by Jung et al. in their study 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 doi:10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z 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 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).