Magnitude conversion problem using general orthogonal regression

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1091-1096

  Wason, H R ^a   Das, Ranjit ^a   Sharma, M L ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Computational seismology; Seismicity and tectonics; Statistical seismology

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIFFERENCE; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; ERROR VARIANCE; LINEAR RELATION; OBSERVED DATA; ORTHOGONAL REGRESSION; PROJECTED POINTS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ESTIMATION;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

EID: 84863781796     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05520.x     Document Type: Article

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