On the sensitivity of entropy weight to sample statistics in assessing water quality: statistical analysis based on large stochastic samples

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2185-2195

  Wu, Jianhua ^a   Li, Peiyue ^a   Qian, Hui ^a   Chen, Jie ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Entropy weight; Information entropy; Sensitivity analysis; Statistical analysis; Water quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; ENTROPY WEIGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; INFORMATION ENTROPY; PERTURBATION APPROACH; WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENTS;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DATA INTERPRETATION; ENTROPY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY MAKING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84937521583     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4208-y     Document Type: Article

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