Incorporation of prior information on parameters into nonlinear regression groundwater flow models: 1. Theory
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Abstract
Prior information on the parameters of a groundwater flow model can be used to improve parameter estimates obtained from nonlinear regression solution of a modeling problem. Two scales of prior information can be available: (1) prior information having known reliability (that is, bias and random error structure) and (2) prior information consisting of best available estimates of unknown reliability. A regression method that incorporates the second scale of prior information assumes the prior information to be fixed for any particular analysis to produce improved, although biased, parameter estimates. Approximate optimization of two auxiliary parameters of the formulation is used to help minimize the bias, which is almost always much smaller than that resulting from standard ridge regression. It is shown that if both scales of prior information are available, then a combined regression analysis may be made.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Incorporation of prior information on parameters into nonlinear regression groundwater flow models: 1. Theory |
| Series title | Water Resources Research |
| DOI | 10.1029/WR018i004p00965 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year Published | 1982 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Geophysical Union |
| Description | 12 p. |
| First page | 965 |
| Last page | 976 |
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