Estimation of the expected number of earthquake occurrences based on semi-Markov models

DOI10.1007/s11009-011-9257-4zbMath1258.60053MaRDI QIDQ1930631

Nikolaos Limnios, Eleftheria Papadimitriou, Irene Votsi, George Tsaklidis

Publication date: 11 January 2013

Published in: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-011-9257-4

zbMATH Keywords

hitting times; semi-Markov process; earthquake occurrence rates; expected number of earthquake occurrences; semi-Markov kernels

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60K15: Markov renewal processes, semi-Markov processes

60K20: Applications of Markov renewal processes (reliability, queueing networks, etc.)

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