Regression-based flow adjustment procedures for trend analysis of water quality data

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1093-1104

  Bekele, A ^a   McFarland, A ^a  

^a TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow adjustment; LOWESS; OLS; Smoothing factor; TMDL; Trend analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

FLOW ADJUSTMENT; LOCALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION AND SMOOTHING SCATTERPLOTS (LOWESS); ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES (OLS); ORTHOPHOSPHATES; TOTAL MAXIMUM DAILY LOAD (TMDL) PROJECTS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS (TSS);

WATER QUALITY;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 6344278852     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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