Comparison of sensitivity analysis methods for pollutant degradation modelling: A case study from drinking water treatment

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 433, Issue , 2012, Pages 530-537

  Neumann, Marc B ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extended FAST; Global sensitivity analysis; Kullback Leibler entropy; Morris Screening; Standardised Regression Coefficients; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY-BASED METHODS; EXTENDED-FAST; GLOBAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER ENTROPY; MICROPOLLUTANTS; MODEL FACTORS; MODEL OUTPUTS; NON-INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; NON-LINEARITY; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POLLUTANT DEGRADATION; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; VARIANCE DECOMPOSITION;

DEGRADATION; ENTROPY; POLLUTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DRINKING WATER;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; MODELING; POLLUTANT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENDED FOURIER AMPLITUDE SELECTIVITY TESTING; FACTOR FIXING; FACTOR MAPPING; FACTOR PRIORITIZATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; KULLBACK LEIBLER ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORRIS SCREENING; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE RELATIVE SENSITIVITY FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER TREATMENT;

DRINKING WATER; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84864415490     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.026     Document Type: Article

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