Response to Comment on "Two statistics for evaluating parameter identifiability and error reduction"

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 380, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 489-496

  Doherty, John ^a,b   Hunt, Randall J ^c  

^a Watermark Numerical Computing   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PARAMETERIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 72249100800     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.10.012     Document Type: Note

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