A Rough Set Based Model in Water Quality Analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2405-2418

  Pai, Ping Feng ^a   Lee, Fong Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multinomial logistic regression; Rough set theory; Water quality

Indexed keywords

DECISION RULES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; MODERN CIVILIZATION; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTINOMIALS; REDUCTS; ROUGH SET; ROUGH-SET BASED; RULE BASED; WATER QUALITY ANALYSIS;

LOGISTICS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

ROUGH SET THEORY;

CIVILIZATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; MODELING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

TAIWAN;

EID: 77955768001     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-009-9558-3     Document Type: Article

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