Global sensitivity analysis techniques for probabilistic ground water modeling

Ground Water

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 727-744

  Mishra, Srikanta ^a   Deeds, Neil ^a   Ruskauff, Greg ^b  

^a INTERA Incorporated   (United States)

^b Stoller Navarro Joint Venture   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GROUNDWATER; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLASSIFICATION-TREE ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY TECHNIQUES; GROUNDWATER MODELS; INPUT OUTPUT MODEL; LOCAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ENTROPY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE SAMPLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 69949162102     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00604.x     Document Type: Review

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