1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 CLASSIFICATION OF INVERSE PROBLEMS
1.2 EXAMPLES OF PARAMETER ESTIMATION PROBLEMS
1.3 EXAMPLES OF INVERSE PROBLEMS
1.4 WHY INVERSE PROBLEMS ARE HARD
1.5 EXERCISES
1.6 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
2 LINEAR REGRESSION
2.1 INTRODUCTION TO LINEAR REGRESSION
2.2 STATISTICAL ASPECTS OF LEAST SQUARES
2.3 UNKNOWN MEASUREMENT STANDARD DEVIATIONS
2.4 L1 REGRESSION
2.5 MONTE CARLO ERROR PROPAGATION
2.6 EXERCISES
2.7 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
3 DISCRETIZING CONTINUOUS INVERSE PROBLEMS
3.1 INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
3.2 QUADRATURE METHODS
3.3 EXPANSION IN TERMS OF REPRESENTERS
3.4 EXPANSION IN TERMS OF ORTHONORMAL BASIS FUNCTIONS
3.5 THE METHOD OF BACKUS AND GILBERT
3.6 EXERCISES
3.7 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
4 RANK DEFICIENCYAND ILL-CONDITIONING
4.1 THE SVD AND THE GENERALIZED INVERSE
4.2 COVARIANCE AND RESOLUTION OF THE GENERALIZED INVERSE SOLUTION
4.3 INSTABILITY OF THE GENERALIZED INVERSE SOLUTION
4.4 AN EXAMPLE OF A RANK-DEFICIENT PROBLEM
4.5 DISCRETE ILL-POSED PROBLEMS
4.6 EXERCISES
4.7 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
5 TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION
5.1 SELECTING A GOOD SOLUTION
5.2 SVD IMPLEMENTATION OF TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION
5.3 RESOLUTION, BIAS, AND UNCERTAINTY IN THE TIKHONOV SOLUTION
5.4 HIGHER-ORDER TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION
5.5 RESOLUTION IN HIGHER-ORDER TIKHONOV REGULARIZATION
5.6 THE TGSVD METHOD
5.7 GENERALIZED CROSS VALIDATION
5.8 ERROR BOUNDS
5.9 EXERCISES
5.10 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
6 ITERATIVE METHODS
6.1 INTRODUCTION
6.2 ITERATIVE METHODS FOR TOMOGRAPHY PROBLEMS
6.3 THE CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD
6.4 THE CGLS METHOD
6.5 EXERCISES
6.6 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
7 ADDITIONAL REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUES
7.1 USING BOUNDS AS CONSTRAINTS
7.2 MAXIMUM ENTROPY REGULARIZATION
7.3 TOTAL VARIATION
7.4 EXERCISES
7.5 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
8 FOURIER TECHNIQUES
8.1 LINEAR SYSTEMS IN THE TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS
8.2 DECONVOLUTION FROMA FOURIER PERSPECTIVE
8.3 LINEAR SYSTEMS IN DISCRETE TIME
8.4 WATER LEVEL REGULARIZATION
8.5 EXERCISES
8.6 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
9 NONLINEAR REGRESSION
9.1 NEWTON’S METHOD
9.2 THE GAUSS–NEWTON AND LEVENBERG–MARQUARDT METHODS
9.3 STATISTICAL ASPECTS
9.4 IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
9.5 EXERCISES
9.6 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
10 NONLINEAR INVERSE PROBLEMS
10.1 REGULARIZING NONLINEAR LEAST SQUARES PROBLEMS
10.2 OCCAM’S INVERSION
10.3 EXERCISES
10.4 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
11 BAYESIAN METHODS
11.1 REVIEW OF THE CLASSICAL APPROACH
11.2 THE BAYESIAN APPROACH
11.3 THE MULTIVARIATE NORMAL CASE
11.4 MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS
11.5 EPILOGUE
11.6 EXERCISES
11.7 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
Appendix A REVIEW OF LINEAR ALGEBRA
A.1 SYSTEMS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS
A.2 MATRIX AND VECTOR ALGEBRA
A.3 LINEAR INDEPENDENCE
A.4 SUBSPACES OF Rn
A.5 ORTHOGONALITY AND THE DOT PRODUCT
A.6 EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS
A.7 VECTOR AND MATRIX NORMS
A.8 THE CONDITION NUMBER OF A LINEAR SYSTEM
A.9 THE QR FACTORIZATION
A.10 LINEAR ALGEBRA IN SPACES OF FUNCTIONS
A.11 EXERCISES
A.12 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
Appendix B REVIEW OF PROBABILITYAND STATISTICS
B.1 PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES
B.2 EXPECTED VALUE AND VARIANCE
B.3 JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS
B.4 CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY
B.5 THE MULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
B.6 THE CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREM
B.7 TESTING FOR NORMALITY
B.8 ESTIMATING MEANS AND CONFIDENCE INTERVALS
B.9 HYPOTHESIS TESTS
B.10 EXERCISES
B.11 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
Appendix C REVIEW OF VECTOR CALCULUS
C.1 THE GRADIENT, HESSIAN, AND JACOBIAN
C.2 TAYLOR’S THEOREM
C.3 LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS
C.4 EXERCISES
C.5 NOTES AND FURTHER READING
Appendix D GLOSSARY OF NOTATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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