P1: OTE/OTE/SPH P2: OTE
JWST061-IND JWST061-Caers March 30, 2011 12:40 Printer Name: Yet to Come
228 INDEX
partial differential equation (PDE), 6, 44, 118,
141, 172
path, random, 97, 105, 113, 116
patterns, 11, 35, 48, 90, 97–100, 182
payoff matrix, 62–3, 66
payoffs, 59–65, 68, 70, 197
expected, 62, 73
pdf, empirical, 28, 87
perfect information, 5, 56, 196, 198–201, 207–8,
216
value of, 196, 201
physical laws, 44, 51, 78, 88–9, 118–19, 121,
123, 129
physical models, 5, 42, 44, 48, 50, 55, 77–8, 144
physical processes, 40, 44, 48, 141–3
Poisson, 26–7
population, 11, 14, 24–5, 28, 30, 34, 62–3
population variance, 24
porosity, 7, 41, 106, 109–10, 135, 154–5, 177,
202–3
porous media, 52–3, 109, 121, 154
preferences, 4, 54, 59–65
prior information, 49, 125–6, 129–31
prior probabilities, 20, 47, 76, 121–3, 129, 181,
198, 202–3
prior uncertainty, 46–7, 50, 166–7, 169, 193, 195,
202, 204
probability, 16–22, 72–4, 97–9, 111–12, 121–3,
125–9, 197–8, 223
unconditional, 19
probability density function, 21–2, 202
probability distribution, 26, 46, 68, 104, 114
probability theory, 6, 9–10, 12, 14, 16, 18–20, 22,
24
processes, 2–3, 6, 27, 30, 40–2, 45, 59, 153–4
dynamic, 42–3, 48
projection, 158–60, 162–6, 185
properties
dynamic, 44, 78
static, 44, 78
proportion, 15, 54, 95, 166, 186
pseudo-random number generator, 30
QQ plots, 16
quantiles, 14–16, 68, 188
quartile
lower, 11–12, 14–15, 180
upper, 11–12, 14–15, 180
random variables, 21–31, 33, 45, 72, 120, 195,
203
raw observations, 42–5, 47, 52–3
recharge, 70–2, 208, 210–11
redundancy, 103, 112
reliabilities, 194–6, 198, 200–1, 206, 212–13,
217, 221, 223–4
reliability probabilities, 196–7, 201, 205–6,
216–17, 221, 223–4
reservoir, 2, 42, 52–4, 90, 99–100, 166–7, 183,
186
reservoir modeling, 52–4
reservoir models, 53, 92, 153–4, 172
resolution, 5, 136, 138, 213
response, forward, 118–19, 121, 127, 205
response function, 8, 161, 172–4, 182, 191
response surface, 173, 176, 178–9
fitted, 177
response surface analysis, 173, 175, 177, 179
response surface methodology, 177, 181, 183
response uncertainty, 6, 8, 119, 165, 171–2, 181
response uncertainty evaluation, 185, 188
risk, 8, 47, 54, 63–7, 123, 186, 194
rock types, 7, 40, 44, 46, 90, 100, 134, 186
salinity, 208, 210
sample space, 17, 19
samplers, 31, 129
rejection, 125–30
samples, 9, 30–1, 45–6, 82, 86–7, 103, 105–6,
108
sampling, 3, 8–9, 17, 21, 28, 30, 81, 107–8
rejection, 125, 130
scale, 37, 51, 53–4, 61, 63–4, 66, 107–8, 143–4
scale models, 53, 183
scatter plots, 33–5, 79, 82, 109–10, 115–16, 166
scenarios, 1, 8, 42, 49, 208–9, 216, 219–20, 223
scores, 61–6, 68–9
seismic, 53, 108, 110, 114, 135–6, 146
seismic data, 53, 100, 109, 131, 134, 136, 140,
146–8
seismic image, 45, 136, 147–9
sensitivity, 68, 163, 181, 189, 191, 221, 223
sensitivity analysis, 6–8, 60, 67–8, 76, 172, 181,
188–9, 221
sequential Gaussian simulation, 104, 159
sequential simulation, 96–7, 99–100, 104, 106,
117
sill, 84, 86, 88
simulation model, 45, 167, 172–3
simulations, 42, 51, 53, 62, 89, 105, 188
sources of uncertainty, 5, 8, 40, 43, 52, 57, 126,
145
spatial continuity, 7, 78, 87, 89–90, 93, 97, 104,
113–14