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Specificatory Knowledge and Single-Point Mapping 125
Posterior Operators for Interval and Probabilistic Soft Data 126
Posterior Operators for Other Forms of Soft Data 130
Discussion 132
CHAPTER 7: The Choice of a Spatiotemporal Estimate 135
Versatility of the BME Approach 135
The BMEmode Estimate 136
Statistics—Hard and soft data 138
Physical laws—Hard and soft data 142
The West Lyons Porosity Field 143
Other BME Estimates 147
A Matter of Coordination 148
CHAPTER 8: Uncertainty Assessment 149
Mapping Accuracy 149
Symmetric Posteriors 150
Asymmetric Posteriors 153
The Equus Beds Aquifer 155
The study area 155
Data collection 156
The water-level elevation mode! 158
BME water-level elevation mapping 158
Optimal decision making 163
Doing Progressive Guesswork 164
CHAPTER 9: Modifications of Formal BME Analysis 165
Versatility and Practicality 165
Functional BME Analysis 166
General formulation 166
The support effect 168
Multivariable or Vector BME Analysis 170
General formulation 170
Physical laws 172
Transformation laws 173
Decision making 174
Multipoint BME Analysis 175
Multipoint BME estimation 175
Multipoint BME uncertainty assessment 177
BME in the Context of Systems Analysis 181
Risk analysis of natural systems 181
Human-exposure systems 182
Associations between environmental exposure and health effect 183
Bringing Plato and Odysseus Together 195
CHAPTER 10: Single-Point Analytical Formulations 197
The Basic Single-Point BME Equations 197