Residual analysis methods for space-time point processes with applications to earthquake forecast models in California

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2549-2571

  Clements, Robert Alan ^a   Schoenberg, Frederic Paik ^a   Schorlemmer, Danijel ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Deviance residuals; Pearson residuals; Rescaled residuals; Super thinned residuals; Superposition; Thinned residuals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865307405     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOAS487     Document Type: Article

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