Is correlation dimension a reliable proxy for the number of dominant influencing variables for modeling risk of arsenic contamination in groundwater?

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Hill, Jason ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^b   Sivakumar, Bellie ^c  

^a Tri State University   (United States)

^b Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arsenic contamination; Bangladesh; Correlation dimension; Groundwater; Logistic regression; Nonlinear deterministic dynamics and chaos

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CORRELATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTION CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 36348974676     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-006-0098-6     Document Type: Article

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