Approximating the distribution of Pareto sums

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 162, Issue 6-7, 2005, Pages 1187-1228

  Zaliapin, I V ^a   Kagan, Y Y ^b   Schoenberg, Frederic P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation of Pareto sums; Pareto distribution; Pareto truncated distribution; Seismic moment distribution; Stable distributions

Indexed keywords

SEISMICITY;

EID: 20344369041     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-004-2666-3     Document Type: Article

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