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How did the failure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to successfully address the problems caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 lead to reforms in that agency? Why was FEMA more successful in dealing with Hurricane Sandy in 2012?


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Eye-Movement Rates

The speed and pattern of eye movements, often studied in psychology and behavioral research to understand reading habits, attention, and information processing.

Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test

A non-parametric test for assessing whether two independent samples come from the same distribution.

Expected Cell Counts

In chi-squared tests, these refer to the theoretically predicted frequencies of observations in the categories of a contingency table under the null hypothesis.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation after estimating certain parameters.

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