Fitting copulas to bivariate earthquake data: The seismic gap hypothesis revisited

Environmetrics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-269

  Nikoloulopoulos, Aristidis K ^a   Karlis, Dimitris ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Archimax; Archimedean; Bootstrap; Extreme value; Kendall's tau; Model averaging; Seismic gap hypothesis; Tail dependence

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MODELING; SEISMICITY;

EID: 42549107445     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.869     Document Type: Article

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