{"id":26,"date":"2016-06-09T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T13:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2022-02-09T19:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T19:22:52","slug":"guide-to-matlaboctave-software","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Guide to Matlab\/Octave Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/picture-4.jpg\" alt=\"picture 4\" width=\"200\" height=\"286\" \/><br \/>\nMatlab provides a wide range of functions for generating random variables and carrying out statistical analysis.\u00a0 It includes statistics, fuzzy and time series analysis tool boxes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The SAFE toolbox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The SAFE (Sensitivity Analysis for Environmental Applications) toolbox is a set of Matlab routines and workflows for carrying out a wide range of sensitivity analyses (see\u00a0Pianosi, F., J. Rougier, J. Freer, J. Hall, D. B. Stephenson, K. J. Beven, and T. Wagener, 2016, Sensitivity Analysis of environmental models: a systematic review with practical workflows, <em>Environmental Modelling and Software, <\/em>79: 214-232).\u00a0The\u00a0SAFE toolbox is\u00a0hosted by the University of Bristol at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/cabot\/resources\/safe-toolbox\/\">http:\/\/www.bris.ac.uk\/cabot\/resources\/safe-toolbox\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The CURE toolbox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CURE (CREDIBLE Uncertainty and Risk Estimation) is a set of Matlab\/Octave routines and workflows for a variety of forms of uncertainty estimation (including Forward Uncertainty Estimation, Bayesian MCMC methods, Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) methods, \u00a0Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) methods. \u00a0The \u00a0CURE toolbox is free to download. \u00a0 For a more complete description and download go to the CURE pages (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/?page_id=152\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The CAPTAIN toolbox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The CAPTAIN tool box for time series analysis includes routines on which some of the real-time forecasting methods described in Section 5.3 of\u00a0<strong>Environmental Modelling: An Uncertain Future?\u00a0<\/strong>may be found at\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.es.lancs.ac.uk\/cres\/captain\/\"><u><strong>http:\/\/www.es.lancs.ac.uk\/cres\/captain\/<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Octave implements much of the functionality of Matlab in a package freely available under the GNU General Public License<\/p>\n<p><u><\/u><u><strong>Generation of random variables<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Matlab has a number of inbuilt random number generators for different forms of distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Both the SAFE and CURE toolboxes (see above) include routines for the generation of independent and correlated random variables.<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Generalised Sensitivity Analysis (GSA)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Routines for Hornberger-Spear-Young GSA are included in the SAFE\u00a0package (see above)<\/p>\n<p><u><strong>Generalised Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Implementations of GLUE is included in the CURE toolbox (see above).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matlab provides a wide range of functions for generating random variables and carrying out statistical analysis.\u00a0 It includes statistics, fuzzy and time series analysis tool boxes. The SAFE toolbox The SAFE (Sensitivity Analysis for Environmental Applications) toolbox is a set of Matlab routines and workflows for carrying out a wide range of sensitivity analyses (see\u00a0Pianosi, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/?page_id=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guide to Matlab\/Octave Software<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/167"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncertain-future.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}