Sensitivity evaluation of environmental models using fractional factorial experimentation

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 86, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 291-295

  Henderson Sellers, B ^a   Henderson Sellers, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Factorial experiments; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002389923     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3800(95)00066-6     Document Type: Review

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