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Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #1

TP = 0.506 + 0.000567 TURB

where:

Model Archive Summary

The model archive summary for computed total phosphorus can be viewed in pdf form here.

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements: 36
Mean squared error: 0.03849444
Multiple R2: 0.5488
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept0.5060.0451
TURB 0.0005670.0001

Correlation Matrix

InterceptTURB
Intercept1-0.6882
TURB -0.68821

Reference

Notes

This model is used to compute values at this station only from 1999 through 2006, the range of time when a 6026-model turbidity sensor was used. Beginning in 2007, a 6136-model turibidty sensor was installed, resulting in a change to the model.