Application of decision trees to the analysis of soil radon data for earthquake prediction

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 697-706

  Zmazek, B ^a   Todorovski, L ^a   Dzeroski S ^a   Vaupotic J ^a   Kobal, I ^a  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Correlation; Earthquakes; Environmental parameters; Forecasting; Radon in soil gas; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; RAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DECISION TREES;

RADON;

RADON; RAIN;

ACCURACY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0037565967     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-8043(03)00094-0     Document Type: Article

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