the aim of this work is to understand the relation between time and place that an earthquake takes place. in order to answer this question, the modified level crossing (mlc) technique has been implemented. by studying two earthquakes, one in iran and one in california we came to the conclusion that there is a relation between time and place of an earthquake occurrence. as a matter of fact, this...

What mathematicians, scientists, engineers, and statisticians mean by \inverse problem" di ers. For a statistician, an inverse problem is an inference or estimation problem. The data are nite in number and contain errors, as they do in classical estimation or inference problems, and the unknown typically is in nite-dimensional, as it is in nonparametric regression. The additional complication i...