Rank‐ordering statistics of extreme events: Application to the distribution of large earthquakes
Rank‐ordering statistics of extreme events: Application to the distribution of large earthquakes
Rank‐ordering statistics provide a perspective on the rare, largest elements of a population, whereas the statistics of cumulative distributions are dominated by the more numerous small events. The exponent of a power law distribution can be determined with good accuracy by rank‐ordering statistics from the observation of only a few …