Understanding and forecasting hypoxia using machine learning algorithms

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-80

  Coopersmith, Evan Joseph ^a   Minsker, Barbara ^a   Montagna, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Hypoxia; K nearest neighbors; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651324349     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2010.015     Document Type: Article

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