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DREAM Suite (DIRECT LINK or ) is a software package for Bayesian inference of numerical simulation models. The program has been developed by PC-Progress in cooperation with Dr. Jasper Vrugt and can be used for the rapid development of applications based on the theory of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation and the DiffeRential Evolution Adaptive Metropolis (DREAM) method. The package includes more than twenty different examples illustrating the main capabilities and functionalities of DREAM Suite. These examples are available including C++ source code, are easy to adapt and can serve as templates for other inference problems. Plugin modules for new projects can be simply generated using the build-in C++ code generator and finished in Microsoft Visual Studio (free Community Edition 2015 or 2013).
As COM server DREAM Suite is readily combined with many other programming languages so that users can rapidly combine their models and data with the GUI and implement the solver and graphical interface for Bayesian inference. We hope that DREAM Suite facilitates the further growth of Bayesian methods in science, engineering, philosophy, medicine, economy, sport and law. New examples are continuously published in the peer-reviewed literature and added to the program (LINK with few examples). The figures below summarize a few pages of the GUI and simplifies considerably the implementation and use of Bayesian methods.
A demo version of DREAM Suite can be downloaded at the following LINK or the website -progress.com/en/Default.aspx?dream-downloads. A user manual can be downloaded HERE and a technical manual of the DREAM method itself can be found HERE. For questions about DREAM Suite please contact PC-Progress at sup...@pc-progress.com.
The FDC is a signature catchment characteristic that depicts graphically the relationship between the exceedance probability of streamflow and its magnitude. This curve is relatively easy to create and interpret, and is used widely for hydrologic analysis, water quality management, and the design of hydroelectric power plants (among others). While several physically-based and probabilistic/mathematical functions have been used to model the empirical FDCs, they fail to characterize adequately the mid-section and tails of the FDC at low and high exceedance probabilities, respectively, and the large differences between the FDCs of watersheds with contrasting hydrologic behaviors. The work of Sadegh et al. (2016) builds on the idea presented by Vrugt and Sadegh (2013) and introduces several commonly used models of the soil water characteristic (SWC) as new class of closed-form parametric expressions for the FDC. These soil water retention functions (WRF) are relatively simple to use, contain two or three parameters, and mimic closely the empirical FDCs of the 438 MOPEX watersheds.
The DREAM MATLAB toolbox provides scientists and engineers with an arsenal of options and utilities to solve posterior sampling problems involving (among others) bimodality, high-dimensionality, summary statistics, bounded parameter spaces, dynamic simulation models, formal/informal likelihood functions, diagnostic model evaluation, data assimilation, Bayesian model averaging, distributed computation, and informative/noninformative prior distributions. The toolbox supports parallel computing and includes tools for convergence analysis of the sampled chain trajectories and post-processing of the results.
The DREAM(ABC) methodology replaces the discrete (0/1) acceptance kernel of Population Monte Carlo (PMC) simulation with a continuous rule. Furthermore, Gibbs sampling (subspace search) dramatically enhances search efficiency in high-dimensional parameter spaces. Details of this procedure can be found in Sadegh and Vrugt (2014).
Particle-DREAM: Posterior state estimation using particle Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation. Particle-DREAM numerically approximates the evolving posterior state distribution, pθ(x1:tỹ1:t)t>1 using sequential Monte Carlo sampling and MCMC resampling with DREAM (Vrugt et al. 2013). An initial ensemble of particles is created from the prior state distribution, p(x0). These particles are propagated forward by sampling from an importance density, and confronted with the next available observation using a likelihood function. This helps partition the state space into productive and unproductive regions. The importance weights of the individual particle trajectories are subsequently updated, and used to assess whether resampling is necessary. If the effective sample size has dropped below a user-defined threshold bad particles are relinquished and MCMC simulation with DREAM is used to create more promising trajectories that adequately capture the evolving posterior state distribution.
SODA: Simultaneous Optimization and Data Assimilation method. This method consist of an inner Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) loop for recursive state estimation conditioned on an assumed parameter set, and an outer global optimization loop (SCEM-UA) for batch estimation of the high probability region of the posterior density of the parameters (Vrugt et al. 2005) (Vrugt et al. 2005) (Vrugt et al. 2006) . This approach improves the treatment of model structural model and input error during calibration, and the time series of sequential state updates (innovations) creates inspiration for model structural improvements.
AMALGAM-SO: A Multi ALgorithm Genetically Adaptive Method for Single Objective Optimization. This method simultaneously merges the strengths of the Covariance Matrix Adaptation (CMA) evolution strategy, Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimizer (PSO) for population evolution and implements a self-adaptive learning strategy to automatically tune the number of offspring these three individual algorithms are allowed to contribute during each generation (Vrugt et al. 2009). Simulation results have shown that AMALGAM-SO scales well with increasing number of dimensions, converges in the close proximity of the global minimum for functions with noise induced multimodality. The method is especially designed to take full advantage of the power of distributed computer networks.
The MATLAB toolbox of AMALGAM provides scientists and engineers with an arsenal of options and utilities to solve multiobjective optimization problems involving (among others) multimodality, high-dimensionality, bounded parameter spaces, dynamic simulation models, and distributed multi-core computation. The AMALGAM toolbox supports parallel computing to permit inference of CPU-intensive system models, and provides convergence diagnostics and graphical output. Four different case studies are used to illustrate the main capabilities and functionalities of the AMALGAM toolbox.
The MODELAVG toolbox implements a suite of different model averaging techniques, including (among others) equal weights averaging (EWA), Bates-Granger model averaging (BGA), Bayesian model averaging (BMA), Mallows model averaging (MMA), and Granger-Ramanathan averaging (GRA). The toolbox returns the posterior distribution of the weights and associated parameters of each model averaging method, along with graphical output of the results. Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation with the DREAM algorithm is used for Bayesian inference (Vrugt et al. 2008) within the context of BMA and MMA. The MODELAVG toolbox enables users to choose different conditional (forecast) distributions for the ensemble members (Gaussian, Gamma) with a homoscedastic (constant) or heteroscedastic (non-constant) variance.
NOTE: The original BMA approach presented by Raftery et al. (2005) assumes that the conditional pdf of each individual model is adequately described with a rather standard Gaussian or Gamma statistical distribution, possibly with a heteroscedastic variance. A paper by (Rings et al. 2012) analyzed the advantages of using BMA with a flexible representation of the conditional pdf using a joint Particle-DREAM, BMA and Gaussian mixture modeling framework. The conditional pdf of each ensemble member was derived from the forecast pdf derived with Particle-DREAM.
GLUE:: Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation. This methodology (philosophy), originally developed by Beven and coworkers (Beven and Binley, 1992; Beven, 2006), provides an alternative to formal Bayesian approaches for situations in which simple statistical assumptions regarding the distributional properties of the error residuals cannot be justified. To this end, it uses an informal likelihood measure to avoid over conditioning and exclude parts of the model (parameter) space that might provide acceptable fits to the data and be useful in prediction. The standard GLUE method uses a rather inefficient (Latin Hypercube) sampling methodology to find the acceptable solutions. This package implements Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation with DREAM to significantly speed up computationally efficiency (Blasone et al. 2008) . The interested reader is also referred to (Vrugt and Beven, 2016) for a demonstration how the DREAM(ABC) package can be used to sample limits of acceptability. Details of this procedure can be found in Sadegh and Vrugt (2014).
DE-MC:: Differential Evolution Markov Chain. MATLAB implementation of the algorithm developed by Cajo ter Braak (2006). This code can be activated within DREAM by changing a few values of the algorithmic variables.
ABC-PMC Population Monte Carlo sampling. This is similar as a simple rejection (aka importance sampling) algorithm but adaptively updates the covariance of the multinormal proposal distribution by sequentially decreasing the value of ε. This significantly enhances sampling efficiency (Vrugt and Sadegh, 2013).
ABC-GLUE Implementation that is similar to GLUE. The methodology uses population Monte Carlo simulation with continuous updating of the covariance of the multinormal proposal distribution by adaptively decreasing the value of ε. Details of this methodology can be found in (Sadegh and Vrugt, 2013).
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