How to select an objective function using information theory

Timothy O Hodson, U.S. Geological Survey, Urbana, IL, United States, Tyler J Smith, Clarkson University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Potsdam, NY, United States, Lucy Amanda Marshall, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Thomas Mark Over, U.S. Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois, United States