A bootstrap method for estimating uncertainty of water quality trends

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 148-166

  Hirsch, Robert M ^a   Archfield, Stacey A ^a   De Cicco, Laura A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Trend; Uncertainty analysis; Water quality

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE TESTING; SURFACE WATERS; TESTING; WATER QUALITY;

BOOTSTRAP; BOOTSTRAP METHOD; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO EXPERIMENTS; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; TREND; WATER QUALITY TRENDS; WEIGHTED REGRESSION;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION; HYDROLOGICAL HAZARD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SURFACE WATER; TESTING METHOD; TREND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84940025430     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.07.017     Document Type: Article

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