The Area Skill Score Statistic for Evaluating Earthquake Predictability Experiments

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 167, Issue 8-9, 2010, Pages 893-906

  Zechar, J Douglas ^a,b   Jordan, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake predictability; Earthquake prediction; Error diagram; Molchan diagram; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS OBSERVATION; DISCRETIZATIONS; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; EFFICIENT ALGORITHM; EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EXACT DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; MOLCHAN DIAGRAM; PERFORMANCE METRICES; SIMULATION PROCEDURES; SKILL SCORE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL SEISMOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; EARTHQUAKES; EXPERIMENTS; STATISTICS;

FORECASTING;

DIAGRAM; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952592006     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-010-0086-0     Document Type: Article

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