Comparing hard and soft prior bounds in geophysical inverse problems

Geophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 249-261

  Backus, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; isotropic probability distributions; prior bounds; Stochastic inversion

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; ISOTROPIC PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PRIOR BOUNDS; STOCHASTIC INVERSION;

EID: 0024257390     PISSN: 09524592     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1988.tb05899.x     Document Type: Article

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