Table 8 Mean model with the level of uncertainty in the posterior utilizing individual inversion of MT data from vPSOGWO, compared with results inverted by Master curve42, Tikhonov regularization42 and Chandra et al.15 over Chatham, New Brunswick, Canada.

From: Nature-inspired stochastic hybrid technique for joint and individual inversion of DC and MT data

Layer parameters

Search range

Inverted value

Lower

Upper

Master curve (Roy and Elliot42)

Tikhonov regularization (Roy43)

Chandra et al.15

vPSOGWO (PDF > 68.27% CI)

PSO

GWO

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

100

5000

1000

581

537.13

528.97

602.87 ± 106.08

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

5000

1500.00

2794

2705.08

3199.85

2042.39 ± 512.42

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1

200

56.00

48

112.72

69.49

106.93 ± 14.69

\({\rho }_{4}\) (Ωm)

50

500

300.00

270

223.46

318.09

271.28 ± 27.13

\({\rho }_{5}\) (Ωm)

100

500

180.00

175

134.34

174.93

154.56 ± 17.67

\({h}_{1}\) (m)

0.01

2

1.00

0.44

0.40

0.40

0.58 ± 0.30

\({h}_{2}\) (m)

0.1

5

1.50

0.64

0.67

0.68

0.98 ± 0.33

\({h}_{3}\) (m)

1

15

8.05

2.98

1.81

1.98

3.37 ± 0.84

\({h}_{4}\) (m)

10

100

30.0

29.22

30.86

26.18

30.63 ± 8.29

Fitness (NRMS)

NRMS = 0.073

NRMS = 0.058

RMS = 0.0224