Model calibration data: The good, the bad, and the useless

Journal / American Water Works Association

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 94-99

  Walski, Thomas M ^a  

^a Pennsylvania American Water Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HEAD LOSS MEASUREMENT;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033640007     PISSN: 0003150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2000.tb08791.x     Document Type: Article

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