Testing alternative ground water models using cross-validation and other methods

Ground Water

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 627-641

  Foglia, L ^a,c   Mehl, S W ^a   Hill, M C ^a   Perona, P ^b   Burlando, P ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DISCRIMINATION METHODS; RANK ALTERNATIVE MODELS;

GROUNDWATER;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MAGGIA VALLEY; SWITZERLAND; TICINO;

EID: 34548142151     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2007.00341.x     Document Type: Article

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