Evaluating multiple predictive models for beach management at a freshwater beach in the Great Lakes region
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recreational water quality is currently monitored at Sandpoint Beach on Lake St. Clair using culture-based enumeration of Escherichia coli. Using water quality and weather data collected over 4 yr, several multiple linear regression (MLR)-based models were developed for near real-time prediction of E. coli concentration and were tested using independent data from the fifth year. Model performance was assessed by the determination of metrics such as RMSE, accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). Each of the developed MLR models described herein resulted in increased correct responses for both exceedance and non-exceedance of the applicable standard as compared to predictions based on E. coli measurements (persistence models, using the previous day's E. coli concentration), which is the method currently being used. The AUROC values for persistence models are between 0.5 and 0.6, as compared to >0.7 for all the MLR models described herein. Among the MLR models, model performance improved when qualitative sky weather condition, which is commonly reported but was not previously used in similar models, was included. To select the best model, a principal coordinate analysis was used to combine multiple model performance metrics and provide a more sensitive tool for model comparison. Although models developed using 2, 3, and 4 yr of monitoring data provided reasonable performance, the model developed using the most recent 2-yr data was marginally better. Thus, data from the most recent 2 yr are likely sufficient as a training dataset for updating the MLR model for Sandpoint Beach in the future.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".