A comparison among general orthogonal regression methods applied to earthquake magnitude conversions

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1135-1151

  Lolli, Barbara ^a   Gasperini, Paolo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Earthquake source observations; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP SIMULATION; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; ORTHOGONAL REGRESSION; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; VARIANCE RATIO; WEIGHTED TOTAL LEAST SQUARES;

EARTHQUAKES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863776892     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05530.x     Document Type: Article

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