Ensemble Bayesian model averaging using Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling

Environmental Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 8, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 579-595

  Vrugt, Jasper A ^a   Diks, Cees G H ^b   Clark, Martyn P ^c  

^a CENTER FOR NONLINEAR STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian model averaging; DiffeRential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; Streamflow forecasting; Temperature forecasting

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SAMPLING;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STREAMFLOW; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 57049103413     PISSN: 15677419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10652-008-9106-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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