• Overview of these pages
    • PEST and PEST++
    • The PEST suite
  • Decision-support modelling
    • Environmental simulation
    • Metrics
    • Uncertainty
    • Understanding the problem
    • Problem decomposition
  • Model calibration
    • Regularisation
    • Manual regularisation
    • Highly parameterised inversion
    • Subspace methods
    • Tikhonov regularisation
    • Why calibrate?
  • Dancing with models
    • PEST-model communication
    • Model run parallelisation
  • PEST control file
    • Structure of PEST control file
    • Some PEST functionality
    • Other PEST-type programs
    • Creating a PEST control file
    • Modifying a PEST control file
    • Some control variables
  • Parameters
    • Parameter specifications
    • Sensitivities
    • Prior information
    • Parameter preprocessing
    • Super-parameters
  • Observations
    • The objective function
    • Observation specifications
    • The need for creativity
    • Utility support
  • Linear analysis
    • Jacobian matrix
    • Parameter uncertainty
    • Predictive uncertainty
    • Error and uncertainty
    • Other analyses
  • Working with MODFLOW
    • GIS and visualisation
    • Parameterisation
    • Observations
    • Particles
  • Pilot points
    • Concepts
    • Implementation
    • PLPROC
    • Pilot point emplacement
    • Pilot point regularisation
  • Random parameters
    • Generating random numbers
    • Repeated model runs
    • Model run postprocessing
  • Nonlinear uncertainty analysis
    • PEST's predictive analyser
    • PESTPP-IES
    • Pseudo-linear methods
    • Predictive hypothesis-testing
    • Data space inversion