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Bridging the gap between GLUE and formal statistical approaches: approximate Bayesian computation
M. Sadegh
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 4130 Engineering Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, USA
J. A. Vrugt
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 4130 Engineering Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, USA
Department of Earth System Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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