Edition 2 of the “PEST Book” has just been released. The book provides complete theory and practice behind simulation-based harvesting of information from site data. It also shows how the integrity of information can be eroded as it passes through a model’s parameters to a model’s predictions, and steps that can be taken to prevent this.
The book also includes easy-to-read discussions of the practical and philosophical consequences of the theory. So it is useful for both modellers and modelling stakeholders.
Topics include:
- Basic linear algebra and statistics
- Geostatistics
- Nonstationary stochastic field generation and manipulation
- Regularized inversion
- Use of ensembles in posterior uncertainty analysis
- Ensemble space inversion
- Data space inversion
- Hierarchical inversion and Bayesian analysis
- Effects of model defects and consequences for model design
- Journey of information
You can download it directly by clicking here. Or the book can be downloaded from the PEST web pages. Let us know if you have any problems downloading it.