Prior information, sampling distributions, and the curse of dimensionality

Geophysics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 372-378

  Curtis, Andrew ^a   Lomax, Anthony ^b  

^a SCHLUMBERGER CAMBRIDGE RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

BAYESIAN INVERSION; CURSE OF DIMENSIONALITY; EFFICIENT SAMPLING; HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; NON LINEAR INVERSION; PRIOR DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLING ARTIFACTS; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION; ARTIFACTS;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; GEOPHYSICS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; INVERSE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035271297     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: 19422156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.1444928     Document Type: Article

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