Water Demand Forecasting Based on Stepwise Multiple Nonlinear Regression Analysis

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2333-2341

  Yasar, Abdulkadir ^a   Bilgili, Mehmet ^a   Simsek, Erdogan ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Nonlinear regression; Stepwise multiple regression; Water demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868156989     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-012-0309-z     Document Type: Article

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