Comparison between two types of multifractal modeling

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1001-1015

  Cheng, Qiuming ^a   Agterberg, F P ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Binomial multiplicative cascade model; Codimension; Fractal spectrum; Multifractal measure

Indexed keywords

CODIMENSION; FRACTAL SPECTRUM; MODEL COMPARIOSN; MULTIFRACTAL MEASURE; MULTIFRACTAL MODELLING; MULTIFRACTAL SPECTRUM;

EID: 0030391021     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02068586     Document Type: Article

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