Difficulty of statistical evaluation of an earthquake prediction method

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1391-1394

  Utada, Hisashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; GAME THEORY; SEISMIC WAVES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION METHOD; GAME RULES; HYPOTHESIS; POISSON APPROXIMATIONS; PRECURSORS; SEISMIC ELECTRICAL SIGNALS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 0030141991     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL01445     Document Type: Article

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