Practical Scheffe-type credibility intervals for variables of a groundwater model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-126

  Cooley, Richard L ^a,b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN METHOD; SCHEFFE CREDIBILITY INTERVALS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GROUNDWATER; MODELING; NUMERICAL METHOD;

EID: 0032927648     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02819     Document Type: Article

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