Transdimensional inference in the geosciences

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1984, 2013, Pages

  Sambridge, M ^a   Bodin, T ^b   Gallagher, K ^c   Tkalcic, H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Inversion; Variable parametrization

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BEST MODEL; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; DATA NOISE; DATA TYPE; EARTH MODELS; EARTH'S INTERIOR; GEOSCIENCES; GROWING BODIES; HIERARCHICAL SAMPLING; ILL POSED PROBLEM; INFERENCE PROCESS; INVERSION; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; MULTIPLE PARAMETERS; NONUNIQUENESS; OPTIMAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETRIZATIONS; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; SAMPLING METHOD; UNCERTAIN DATAS; UNCERTAIN MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84874163349     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0547     Document Type: Article

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