Estimation of Groundwater Radon in North Carolina Using Land Use Regression and Bayesian Maximum Entropy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 9817-9825

  Messier, Kyle P ^a   Campbell, Ted ^b   Bradley, Philip J ^c   Serre, Marc L ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b Division of Water Quality   (United States)

^c North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ENTROPY; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE; STATISTICAL METHODS; URANIUM;

BAYESIAN MAXIMUM ENTROPIES; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; GEOLOGICAL FORMATION; LAND USE REGRESSION; LEAVE-ONE-OUT CROSS VALIDATIONS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY;

RADON;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; RADON; WATER POLLUTANT;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BEDROCK; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; GROUNDWATER; LAND USE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

ALKALINITY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPLANATORY VARIABLE; LAND USE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHY; WATER POLLUTANT;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

BAYES THEOREM; ENTROPY; GEOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER; NORTH CAROLINA; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84939533447     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01503     Document Type: Article

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