European researchers have found that the unpredictable nature of how and when a slab of snow falls apart may make avalanches almost impossible to predict. Their work shows that two apparently ...

In this paper an estimator of the location parameter of the Weibull distribution is proposed which is independent of its scale and shape parameters. Several properties of this estimator are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Four different characterisations of the two-parameter Weibull law have been proposed. The first is in terms of a functional relation to be ...