Time-decreasing hazard and increasing time until the next earthquake

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Corral, Álvaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT TIME WINDOWS; GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; SCALING FUNCTIONS; TIME-DECREASING HAZARDS;

ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 41349117827     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.017101     Document Type: Article

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