Estimating an upper limit probability distribution for peak ground acceleration using the randomly clipped normal distribution

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2058-2065

  Bragato, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; RANDOMLY CLIPPED NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

SEISMOLOGY;

GROUND MOTION; PEAK ACCELERATION; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

EID: 31544444168     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040213     Document Type: Article

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