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Course Notes - Department of Mathematics and Statistics

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- How do geologists know?- Sediment disturbances, radiocarbon dating <strong>of</strong> disturbed material,tree rings.• Intervals: 230, 155, 102, ≥ 293 years.- Overdue?Earthquake II• Observational – obtained by recording natural events.- Could the measurement have favoured the observed values?• Synthetic – reconstructed from other data.- Not the data we wish we had.- Reconstruction introduces error (1717 accurate to nearest year;before 1717 accurate to ± 50 years)• Last interval is censored – it is at least 293 years.• Need to take into account when expressing uncertainties associatedwith any predictions.15

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