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An Empirical Bayes Analysis of Volcanic Eruptions

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This paper describes a simple empirical Bayes approach to inference about the eruption rate of a volcano under a Poisson process model. Under this approach, the prior distribution of the eruption rate is estimated from the eruption records of a group of similar volcanoes. The approach is illustrated using the eruption records of six Central American volcanoes.

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Solow, A.R. An Empirical Bayes Analysis of Volcanic Eruptions. Mathematical Geology 33, 95–102 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007514410745

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