Learning about physical parameters: The importance of model discrepancy

Inverse Problems

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Brynjarsdóttir, Jenni ^a   Ohagan, Anthony ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calibration; computer models; extrapolation; model form error; simulation model; structural uncertainty; uncertainty quantification

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EXTRAPOLATION; FORECASTING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMPUTER MODELS; FORM ERRORS; SIMULATION MODEL; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATIONS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 84908582437     PISSN: 02665611     EISSN: 13616420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0266-5611/30/11/114007     Document Type: Article

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