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Peaks from Random Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Sheldon M. Ross
Sheldon M. Ross
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations ResearchUniversity of California Berkeley, California
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In an influential and controversial paper, Raup and Sepkoski [2] defined an event of mass extinction to have occurred in any time period (of roughly 6.4 million years) for which the data value for that time period (equal to the proportion of the families existing at the beginning of that period that went extinct during the period) exceeded that of its immediate neighbors. In this article we analyze the occurrence of such events when the data are randomly generated from a continuous distribution.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1987 , pp. 65 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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