Probability Aggregation Methods in Geoscience

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 545-581

  Allard, D ^a   Comunian, A ^b,c   Renard, P ^b  

^a INRA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Calibration; Conditional probability pooling; Data integration; Log linear pooling; Sharpness

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION METHODS; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA INTEGRATION; GAUSSIAN MODEL; GEOSCIENCES; GOODNESS OF FIT; LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; LITHOFACIES; LOG-LINEAR POOLING; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES; PROBABILISTIC FRAMEWORK; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SHARPNESS; TRAINING IMAGE;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH SCIENCES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

CALIBRATION; EARTH SCIENCE; LITHOFACIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84862671988     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-012-9396-3     Document Type: Review

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