Probability gains expected for renewal process models

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 563-571

  Imoto, Masajiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brownian; Gamma; Information gain; Kull back Leibler; Long term probability; Probability gain; Renewal model; Weibull

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHOD; PROBABILITY;

EID: 20544439995     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352517     Document Type: Article

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