Gaussian process emulation of dynamic computer codes
- 30 June 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biometrika
- Vol. 96 (3), 663-676
- https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asp028
Abstract
Computer codes are used in scientific research to study and predict the behaviour of complex systems. Their run times often make uncertainty and sensitivity analyses impractical because of the thousands of runs that are conventionally required, so efficient techniques have been developed based on a statistical representation of the code. The approach is less straightforward for dynamic codes, which represent time-evolving systems. We develop a novel iterative system to build a statistical model of dynamic computer codes, which is demonstrated on a rainfall-runoff simulator.Keywords
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