Special section - Assessment of schemes for earthquake prediction - Earthquake prediction: The null hypothesis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 495-499

  Stark, Philip B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake prediction

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS;

EID: 0031405579     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246x.1997.tb06593.x     Document Type: Article

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