Latin hypercube approach to estimate uncertainty in ground water vulnerability

Ground Water

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 348-361

  Gurdak, Jason J ^a,b   McCray, John E ^b   Thyne, Geoffrey ^b   Qi, Sharon L ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^c CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

ERROR PROPAGATION; LATIN HYPERCUBE SAMPLING (LHS); MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION;

GROUNDWATER;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; GROUNDWATER; MODEL; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

ARTICLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 34247552730     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2006.00298.x     Document Type: Article

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