Trans-dimensional inversion of microtremor array dispersion data with hierarchical autoregressive error models

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 719-734

  Dettmer, Jan ^a   Molnar, Sheri ^a,b   Steininger, Gavin ^a   Dosso, Stan E ^a   Cassidy, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Interface waves; Inverse theory; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

AUTO REGRESSIVE PROCESS; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; AUTOREGRESSIVE ERROR MODEL; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; DATA ERRORS; DATA PREDICTION; DISPERSION DATA; EARTH MODELS; ERROR PROCESS; ESTIMATES OF PARAMETERS; FORWARD MODELS; INTERFACE WAVES; INVERSE THEORY; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MICROTREMOR ARRAY; MODEL VECTORS; NONUNIQUENESS; NUMBER OF LAYERS; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PARAMETER VALUES; PARAMETER VECTORS; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PARTITION MODEL; POINT ESTIMATE; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; SHEAR WAVE VELOCITY; STATE SPACE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISPERSION (WAVES); ERROR STATISTICS; ESTIMATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFERENCE ENGINES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTOR CORES; SHEAR FLOW; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA INVERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MICROTREMOR; MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; S-WAVE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WAVE VELOCITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 84855424934     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05302.x     Document Type: Article

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