Modeling dredging project cost variations

Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 279-285

  Williams, Trefor P ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Database; Dredging; Regression models; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DATA TRANSFER; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EXPONENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS;

DREDGING;

COST; DATABASE; DREDGING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; MODELING;

EID: 0242551868     PISSN: 0733950X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2003)129:6(279)     Document Type: Article

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