Probabilistic Forecasting of Volcanic Eruptions
What do an actuary and a volcanologist have in common? Both try to predict rare events with enormous consequences. This note reviews how eruption intervals for Popocatépetl and Galeras are modeled with log-normal distributions, Markov models, and renewal processes. The open questions at the end are genuinely fascinating. Personal applied probability note.
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