Volcanic hazard assessment incorporating expert knowledge: Application to the Yucca Mountain region, Nevada, USA

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 615-627

  Ho, Chih Hsiang ^a   Smith, Eugene I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert knowledge; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process; Power law process; Prior distribution; Volcanic hazard

Indexed keywords

EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; POISSON PROCESS; PROBABILISTIC DATA ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC HAZARD;

USA, NEVADA, YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 0031434366     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02769647     Document Type: Article

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