A few considerations for ascribing statistical significance to earthquake predictions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1399-1402

  Stark, P B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTIONS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAIN SHOCKS; POISSON PROCESS; PREDICTION ALGORITHM; SEISMICITY HISTORY; STOCHASTIC MODEL; VAROTSOS-ALEXOPOULOS-NOMICOS METHOD;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 0030148505     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03416     Document Type: Article

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