Logic tree branch weights and probabilities: Summing up to one is not enough

Earthquake Spectra

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1237-1251

  Scherbaum, Frank ^a   Kuehn, Nicolas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HAZARDS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRANCH MODELS; DEGREE OF BELIEF; EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES; HAZARD CURVES; LOGICAL CONSISTENCY; MODEL QUALITIES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; HAZARDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 84856031332     PISSN: 87552930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1193/1.3652744     Document Type: Review

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