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Performance Evaluation of Artificial Neural Networks for Runoff Prediction

2000· article· en· W1999378232 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Hydrologic Engineering · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsLakehead UniversityUniversity of Manitoba
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsArtificial neural networkMean squared errorStatisticComputer scienceSurface runoffRegressionLinear regressionNonlinear systemStatisticsMachine learningMathematics

Abstract

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Spring runoff prediction in the Red River Valley, southern Manitoba, Canada, is an important issue because of the devastating effect of the flood of 1997 in that area. Increasing the accuracy of the prediction process is a practical necessity. This study looks at the artificial neural networks (ANN) technique and compares it to linear and nonlinear regression techniques. The advantages and disadvantages of the three modeling techniques are discussed. To fill the predictive accuracy evaluation gap left by the mean squared error and the mean relative error, a modified statistic, namely, pooled mean squared error, is developed and explained. The aim of this work is to show the applicability of ANN for runoff prediction and to evaluate their performances by comparing them with traditional techniques. In this study, according to the accuracy of results, the ANN models show superiority in most of the cases. However, in some situations, the performance of the other two techniques was comparable.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.051
Threshold uncertainty score0.638

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it