Variance reduction and signal-to-noise ratio: Reducing uncertainty in spectral ratios

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 619-634

  Ktenidou, Olga Joan ^a,c   Chávez García, Francisco J ^b   Pitilakis, Kyriazis D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; CUT-OFF VALUE; DATA SELECTION; DATA SETS; DEEP BOREHOLES; DOWNHOLE STATION; EARTHQUAKE RECORDS; FREQUENCY RANGES; GULF OF CORINTH , GREECE; MEAN VALUES; RESONANT PEAKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SITE RESPONSE; SMALL DATA SET; SPECTRAL RATIOS; STATISTICAL TOOLS; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BEDROCK; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; SEISMIC METHOD; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SITE EFFECT; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 79953056621     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100036     Document Type: Article

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