A synthetic groundwater modelling study of the accuracy of GLUE uncertainty intervals

Nordic Hydrology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-59

  Christensen, Steen ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Confidence interval; GLUE; Model error; Prediction interval

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLOW DOMAINS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINITY ESTIMATION (GLUE) INTERVALS;

HYDROLOGY;

ERROR; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING;

EID: 0942291338     PISSN: 00291277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/nh.2004.0004     Document Type: Article

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