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Comparative Studies in Problems of Missing Extreme Daily Streamflow Records

2008· article· en· W2062362242 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Hydrologic Engineering · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicHydrological Forecasting Using AI
Canadian institutionsLakehead UniversityUniversity of Waterloo
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsMissing dataImputation (statistics)StreamflowArtificial neural networkComputer scienceRegressionData miningMean squared errorGenetic algorithmStatisticsArtificial intelligenceMathematicsMachine learningCartographyGeography

Abstract

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This study evaluates the performance of different estimation techniques for the infilling of missing observations in extreme daily hydrologic series. Generalized regression neural networks (GRNNs) are proposed for the estimation of missing observations with their input configuration determined through an optimization approach of genetic algorithm (GA). The efficacy of the GRNN-GA technique was obtained through comparative performance analyses of the proposed technique to existing techniques. Based on the results of such comparative analyses, especially in the case of the English River (Canada), the GRNN-GA technique was found to be a highly competitive method when compared to the existing artificial neural networks techniques. In addition, based on the criteria of mean squared and absolute errors, a detailed comparative analysis involving the GRNN-GA, k-nearest neighbors, and multiple imputation for the infilling of missing records of the Saugeen River (Canada), also found the GRNN-GA technique to be superior when evaluated against other competing techniques.

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Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.065
Threshold uncertainty score0.481

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