Size distribution of geological faults: Model choice and parameter estimation

DOI10.1191/1471082X02ST039OAMaRDI QIDQ3427627zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hilde Grude Borgos, Henning Omre, Chris Townsend

Publication date 20 March 2007

Published in Statistical Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1191/1471082x02st039oa

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factorMCMC samplinggeological faultspseudoprior

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bayesian inference (62F15) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Geostatistics (86A32) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35)

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• Matlab

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