experiment_list (list) – List of Experiment class objects containing the Pyomo model
for the different experimental conditions
method (str) – Covariance calculation method specified by the user,
e.g., ‘finite_difference’
obj_function (callable) – Built-in objective function selected by the user, e.g., SSE
theta_vals (dict) – Dictionary containing the estimates of the unknown parameters
step (float) – Float used for relative perturbation of the parameters,
e.g., step=0.02 is a 2% perturbation
solver (str) – Solver name specified by the user, e.g., ‘ipopt’
tee (bool) – Boolean solver option to be passed for verbose output
estimated_var (float, optional) – Value of the estimated variance of the measurement error
in cases where the user does not supply the
measurement error standard deviation