Robust estimation of hydrogeologic model parameters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2939-2947

  Finsterle, Stefan ^a,b   Najita, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODEL; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION;

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

HYDROGEOLOGIC PARAMETER; LEAST SQUARES CRITERION; LEAST SQUARES METHODS; LEAST-SQUARES FORMULATION; NON-GAUSSIAN RANDOMS; ROBUST ESTIMATORS; SYNTHETIC EXPERIMENTS; SYSTEMATIC MODELING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0031760415     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02174     Document Type: Article

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