A comparison of different rule-based statistical models for modeling geogenic groundwater contamination

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1650-1657

  Amini, Manouchehr ^a   Abbaspour, Karim C ^a   Johnson, C Annette ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adoptive neuro fuzzy inference system; Classification and regression tree; Hybrid methods; Knowledge based clustering; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; HYBRID METHOD; KNOWLEDGE-BASED CLUSTERING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; NEURO-FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS;

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LINEAR REGRESSION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CLIMATE EFFECT; DATABASE; ELEVATION; FLUORIDE; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOGENIC SOURCE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL APPLICATION;

EID: 79955897993     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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