Table 10 Mean model with the level of uncertainty in the posterior utilizing individual inversion of MT data from the findings of the PSO, GWO, vPSOGWO, compared with results inverted by Harinarayana et al.45 over Western Puga valley geothermal field, Ladakh, India.

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

Layer parameters

Search range

Marquardt inversion44

Inverted value (PDF > 68.27% CI)

Lower

Upper

PSO

GWO

vPSOGWO

\({\rho }_{1}\) (Ωm)

100

1000

588.60

547.66 ± 44.00

540.64 ± 40.42

523.11 ± 21.90

\({\rho }_{2}\) (Ωm)

100

1000

743.03

734.19 ± 62.65

741.30 ± 24.72

731.27 ± 12.48

\({\rho }_{3}\) (Ωm)

1

50

24.48

28.28 ± 4.74

27.85 ± 1.47

28.05 ± 0.76

\({\rho }_{4}\) (Ωm)

10

1000

62.93

56.86 ± 269.00

58.16 ± 36.73

66.68 ± 26.22

\({\rho }_{5}\) (Ωm)

0.01

10

NA

0.03 ± 3.08

0.60 ± 2.75

5.69 ± 1.33

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

0.1

1

0.78

0.48 ± 0.21

0.46 ± 0.15

0.42 ± 0.73

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

3

6

4.35

4.14 ± 0.45

4.17 ± 0.19

4.32 ± 0.11

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

1

10

3.31

5.66 ± 1.73

5.50 ± 0.81

6.16 ± 0.43

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

10

100

Infinity

69.58 ± 13.87

70.05 ± 3.50

65.68 ± 1.96

Fitness (RMS)

0.0229

0.02245

0.02242