Mixing of rescaled data and Bayesian inference for earthquake recurrence times

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-100

  Corral, Alvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; SCALE EFFECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 14944348530     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-12-89-2005     Document Type: Article

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