A statistical test for correlation between crater formation rate and mass extinctions

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 282, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1407-1412

  Matsumoto, Maki ^a,b   Kubotani, Hiroto ^a,c  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Asahi Kasei Microsystems   (Japan)

^c NARA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comets: General; Earth; Meteors, meteoroids; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

COMETS: GENERAL; CRATER FORMATION; FORMATION RATES; MASS EXTINCTION; METEOR, METEOROID; METHODS:STATISTICAL; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SIGNIFICANCE LEVELS; TIME-SCALES; UNCERTAINTY;

COMETS;

EID: 0005193163     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/282.4.1407     Document Type: Article

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