Gambling scores for earthquake predictions and forecasts

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 382-390

  Zhuang, Jiancang ^a  

^a Research Organization of Information and Systems   (Japan)

Author keywords

Probabilistic forecasting; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FORECASTING METHOD; MODELING; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952577255     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04496.x     Document Type: Article

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