Encapsulation of parametric uncertainty statistics by various predictive machine learning models: MLUE method

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 95-113

  Shrestha, Durga L ^a   Kayastha, Nagendra ^b   Solomatine, Dimitri ^b   Price, Roland ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hydrological modelling; Machine learning; MLUE; Monte Carlo; Uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897488959     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2013.242     Document Type: Article

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