etasFLP-package: Estimation of an ETAS model for earthquake description. ML (maximum Likelihood) and FLP (Forward Likelihood Predictive) estimation of parametric and non-parametric components.

Description

Estimation of the components of an ETAS (Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequences) model for the description of the seismicity of a space-time region. Background seismicity is estimated non-parametrically, while triggered seismicity is estimated by MLE. The bandwidth for a kernel smoothing can be estimated through the Forward Likelihood Predictive approach (FLP); probability of being an aftershock can be estimated for each event, too. Also plot, print, summary, profile methods are defined for the output of the main function etasclass.

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Details

ll{ Package: etasFLP Type: Package Version: 1.0.2 Date: 2014-3-27 License: GPL (>=2) Depends: R (>= 2.14.0), fields, rgl, maps, mapdata, car Suggests: MASS } etasclass is the main function of the package etasFLP.

References

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Chiodi, M. and Adelfio, G., (2011) Forward Likelihood-based predictive approach for space-time processes. Environmetrics, vol. 22 (6), pp. 749-757.

Console, R., Jackson, D. D. and Kagan, Y. Y. Using the ETAS model for Catalog Declustering and Seismic Background Assessment. Pure Applied Geophysics 167, 819--830 (2010).

Ogata, Y. Statistical models for earthquake occurrences and residual analysis for point processes. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 83, 9--27 (1988).

Veen, A. and Schoenberg, F.P. Estimation of space-time branching process models in seismology using an EM-type algorithm. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(482), 614--624 (2008).

Zhuang, J., Ogata, Y. and Vere-Jones, D. Stochastic declustering of space-time earthquake occurrences. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 97, 369--379 (2002).