Embracing equifinality with efficiency: limits of acceptability sampling using the DREAM(LOA) algorithm

Jasper A. Vrugt and Keith J. Beven

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Abstract: This essay illustrates some recent developments to the DiffeRential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis (DREAM) MATLAB toolbox of Vrugt, 2016 to delineate and sample the behavioural solution space of set-theoretic likelihood functions used within the GLUE (Limits of Acceptability) framework (Beven and Binley, 1992; Beven and Freer, 2001; Beven, 2006; Beven et al., 2014). This work builds on the DREAM (ABC) algorithm of Sadegh and Vrugt, 2014 and enhances significantly the accuracy and CPU-efficiency of Bayesian inference with GLUE. In particular it is shown how lack of adequate sampling in the model space might lead to unjustified model rejection.

Keywords: GLUE; Limits of Acceptability; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Posterior Sampling; DREAM; DREAM(LOA); Sufficiency; Hydrological modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-04-01
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Published in Journal of Hydrology, 1, April, 2018, 559, pp. 954-971. ISSN: 0022-1694

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