Comparison of load estimation methods and their associated error

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3322-3328

  Marsh, N ^a   Waters, D ^a  

^a EWATER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Load estimation; Sediment; Water quality

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SAMPLING; STORMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TROPICS; WATER QUALITY;

HIGH FREQUENCY DATA; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; TOTAL SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY MONITORS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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