434 STATISTICAL METHODS OF GEOPHYSICAL DATA PROCESSING
of dispersion, 50
Entropy
differential, 66
mean conditional, 66
total, 66
Equation
characteristic system, 140
diffusion, 130
dispersion, 137
eikonal (general), 139
Euler, 254
Lame, 120
telegraph, 130
transport, 132, 306
wave, 126
scalar, 130
vector, 129
Wiener–Hopf, 390
Ergodic hypothesis, 76
Estimate
asymptotic efficient, 96
asymptotically bias, 93
efficient, 96
maximum a posteriori probability, 280
maximum a posteriori probability , 90
Event
certain, 3
elementary, 1, 2
impossible, 3
random, 2
Events
independent, 9
nonindependent, 9
Fisher matrix, 69
Flow of events, 41
ordinary, 42
Poisson, 42
stationary, 42
without a consequence, 41
Frechet derivative, 253
Function
autocorrelation, 74
correlation, 74
decision, 84
likelihood, 89, 164, 279
loss, 84
sufficient reception, 212
Functional, 251
convex, 268
Rayleigh, 254
stabilizing, 271
tomographic, 297
Functional gradient, 253
Fundamental sequence, 249
Generating function
central moments, 32
initial moments, 31
Geometrical optics, 135
Green’s theorem
first, 257
second, 257
Independent random variables, 18
Inequality
Cauchy–Bunyakovskii, 250
Schwarz, 249
Information
a priori, 265
complete mutual, 65
Kullback, 209
partial, 65
Interpretation
combined, 88
interval-quantitative, 88
point-quantitative, 87
qualitative, 87
quantitative, 87
quantitative-qualitative, 88
Intersection, 2
Lame parameters, 119
Law
Coulomb, 127
Faraday, 127
Oersted, 128
of averages, 34
Maxwell hypothesis, 128
Median, 26
Method
likelihood ratio, 90
maximum likelihood, 89, 279
steepest descent, 267
Minimax procedure, 89
Mode, 27
Moment
central, 28
first, 73