Selection of suitable aggregation function for estimation of aggregate pollution index for River Ganges in India

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 689-701

  Singh, Ram Pal ^a   Nath, Satyendra ^a   Prasad, Subhash C ^a   Nema, Arvind K ^b  

^a SAM HIGGINBOTTOM UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Aggregates; India; Rivers; Water pollution

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; ESTIMATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; POLLUTION; RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; SEMANTICS;

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; AGGREGATION METHODS; ARITHMETIC MEAN (AM); DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EXPERT OPINION; FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIORS; POLLUTION INDEX;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AGGREGATE; AGGREGATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; RIVER POLLUTION; TESTING METHOD;

ASIA; EURASIA; GANGES RIVER; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 47749106433     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(2008)134:8(689)     Document Type: Article

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