A new MCMC algorithm for seismic waveform inversion and corresponding uncertainty analysis

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 14-32

  Hong, Tiancong ^a   Sen, Mrinal K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inverse theory; Probabilistic forecasting; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INVERSE PROBLEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; PRESTACK MIGRATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 63049113477     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.04052.x     Document Type: Article

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