Power-Law Testing for Fault Attributes Distributions

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Volumn 170, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2173-2183

  Kolyukhin, Dmitry ^a   Torabi, Anita ^a  

^a Uni CIPR   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian information criterion; Faults; likelihood ratio test; non nested hypotheses; power law distribution

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; NON-NESTED HYPOTHESES; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; STATISTICAL APPROXIMATION;

FAULTING; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DAMAGE; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT; GEOSTATISTICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84887563485     PISSN: 00334553     EISSN: 14209136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00024-013-0644-3     Document Type: Article

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