Model parameter estimation with imprecise and unpaired data

Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1017-1041

  Sankararaman, Shankar ^a   Mahadevan, Sankaran ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; calibration; interval data; inverse problems; likelihood; Smallwood model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; IMPACT LOADINGS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; INPUT-OUTPUT DATA; INTERVAL DATA; LAP JOINT; LIKELIHOOD; MODEL CALIBRATION; MODEL PARAMETER ESTIMATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; POINT DATA; POINT VALUE; STATISTICAL APPROACH; UNCERTAINTY PROPAGATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84868256868     PISSN: 17415977     EISSN: 17415985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17415977.2012.675505     Document Type: Article

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