Debates—Hypothesis testing in hydrology: Pursuing certainty versus pursuing uberty

Water Resources Research

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1770-1778

  Baker, Victor R ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

hypothesis testing; modeling; philosophy

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; WATER RESOURCES;

ACKNOWLEDGED MODE; CREATIVE PROCESS; ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PHILOSOPHY; PHYSICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE DATA SETS;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 85016994709     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016WR020078     Document Type: Note

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