Estimation of suspended sediment concentration and yield using linear models, random forests and quantile regression forests

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 4892-4904

  Francke, T ^a   Lopez Tarazon J A ^b   Schroder B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Generalized linear model; Quantile Regression Forests; Random Forests; Sediment rating curve; Suspended sediment concentration

Indexed keywords

GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; QUANTILE REGRESSION FORESTS; RANDOM FORESTS; SEDIMENT RATING CURVE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION;

ALGEBRA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORKS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SEDIMENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PYRENEES;

EID: 67650321037     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7110     Document Type: Article

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