Modeling the joint probability of earthquake, site, and ground-motion parameters using Bayesian networks

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 235-249

  Kuehn, N M ^a   Riggelsen, C ^a   Scherbaum, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

List of records and probability tables for Bayesian network

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FAULT MECHANISM; GENERIC SITUATION; GOOD DATA; GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS; GROUND-MOTION; JOINT PROBABILITY; LIST OF RECORDS AND PROBABILITY TABLES FOR BAYESIAN NETWORK; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; PEAK GROUND ACCELERATION; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS; REASONING UNDER UNCERTAINTY;

BIOINFORMATICS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; EARTHQUAKES; INFERENCE ENGINES; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHEAR FLOW; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; FAULT ZONE; GROUND MOTION; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC MOMENT;

EID: 79251625936     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100080     Document Type: Article

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