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Nikhil Rodrigues

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STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE AMAZON FOREST FIRES IN BRAZIL (1998-2017)
Forest fires in Brazil pose a serious threat to the tropical forests in the Amazonas. The Amazon rainforest region is the biggest rainforest region on the planet. The behaviour of the forest fire pattern is unique compared to rest other forest fires in different other places in the world. The frequency of forest fires ranges differently as per state and the data was acquired over the years ranging from 1998 to 2017, i.e., of a span over a decade. The data was acquired from the Open Data Kaggle source and was subjected to statistical analysis. The varying information is state wise and year wise obtained from an Excel file in ‘.csv’ format. RStudio software is used to code the statistical analysis methods as the information data in the file is large and thus the computerised programming language is used to observe and study the analysis. One of the states in the legal Amazon domain contributes to significant effect. The entire forest region of the country of Brazil lies within only certain states in the tropical sector and some states adjoining the tropical zone in the temperate regions. As a result, of the 23 only 14 come under ‘legal Amazonas’ that lead to maximum extent of the forest cover. However, the analysis is done nonetheless for all the 23 states wherever the forest fires are reported either officially or unofficially. The analysis is done using RStudio whereby line plot, bar plot, histograms, box plot and dot plot lead to basic statistical analysis of the forest fires whereas the in-depth and detailed analysis is provided by the sample t-test and the hypothesis null test.