Using data mining to understand drinking water advisories in small water systems: A case study of Ontario first nations drinking water supplies

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 5129-5139

  Harvey, Richard ^a   Murphy, Heather M ^a   McBean, Edward A ^a   Gharabaghi, Bahram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data mining; Decision tree; Drinking water advisory; First Nations; Water

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DECISION TREES; POTABLE WATER; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATER; WATER SUPPLY; WATERWORKS;

DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DRINKING WATER SYSTEMS; FIRST NATIONS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE; SAFE DRINKING WATER; SMALL WATER SYSTEMS; SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS;

DATA MINING;

DATA MINING; DRINKING WATER; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 85027953265     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-1108-6     Document Type: Article

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