Peaks from Random Data,

Abstract

In an influential and controversial paper, Raup and Sepkoski 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. This note analyzes the data are randomly generated from a continous distribution.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA174363

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  • Sheldon M. Ross

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