The praise of ignorance: randomness as lack of information

Daniela Calvetti; Erkki Somersalo

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-73394-4_3

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Inverse Problem Posterior Density Tikhonov Regularization Prior Belief Observation Model

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Daniela Calvetti
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Erkki Somersalo
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1.Department of MathematicsCase Western Reserve UniversityCleveland
2.Institute of Mathematics Helsinki University of TechnologyFinland

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Cite this chapter as:: Calvetti D., Somersalo E. (2007) The praise of ignorance: randomness as lack of information. In: Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing. Surveys and Tutorials in the Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY

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