Generalized priors in Bayesian inversion problems

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 36, Issue , 2012, Pages 3-10

  Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Interpolation; Inverse modeling; Probabilistic analysis; Uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INVERSION; BAYESIAN METHODS; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; HARD DATA; HEAD DATA; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; ILL POSED; INVERSE MODELING; LIMITED INFORMATION; MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PRIOR INFORMATION; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; SPECIAL STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC FRAMEWORK; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC HEAD; INTERPOLATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84855230754     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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