Unbiased statistical comparison of creep and shrinkage prediction models

ACI Materials Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 610-621

  Bažant, Zdeněk R ^a,b   Li, Guang Hua ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University ^*

Author keywords

Creep; Design guide; Least square regression; Prediction model; Shrinkage; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS; CONCRETE STRUCTURES; DATA SAMPLINGS; DESIGN GUIDE; EXPERIMENTAL DATABASES; LEAST-SQUARE REGRESSION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CRITERIONS; METHOD OF LEAST SQUARES; PAPER ADDRESSES; PREDICTION ERRORS; PREDICTION MODEL; PREDICTION MODELS; SHRINKAGE MODELS; SHRINKAGE PREDICTION MODELS; SQUARE REGRESSIONS; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

CREEP; CURVE FITTING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FORECASTING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODEL STRUCTURES; SHRINKAGE; STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 57149125502     PISSN: 0889325X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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