Statistical distributions of uncertainty and variability in activated sludge model parameters

Water Environment Research

Volumn 76, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2672-2685

  Cox, Chris D ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated Sludge Model No. 1; Activated sludge models; Bayesian statistics; Parameter uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; PARAMETER VALUES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SEWAGE SLUDGE;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DATA BASE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIANCE;

EID: 11344275460     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1554-7531.2004.tb00229.x     Document Type: Article

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