Modelling municipal waste separation rates using generalized linear models and beta regression

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1129-1138

  Ibanez M V ^a   Prades, M ^a   Simo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beta regression modelling; Degree of Separation; GLM modelling; Logistic and socio economic effects; Waste collection

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; COLLECTION SYSTEMS; COVARIATES; CULTURAL FACTORS; DEGREE OF SEPARATION; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GLM MODELLING; MUNICIPAL WASTE; REGRESSION MODELLING; SEPARATION RATE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION MODEL; WASTE COLLECTION;

LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPARATION;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; BETA REGRESSION MODEL; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; MUNICIPAL WASTE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SPAIN;

EID: 80052031197     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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