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Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #2

log10(As) = 0.88 + 0.014 TEMP - 0.183 log10(Q)

where:

Model Archive Summary

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

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements: 189
Mean squared error: 0.012996
Multiple R2: 0.741
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1.03

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept0.880.0266
TEMP 0.0140.0011
log10(Q) -0.1830.0091

Correlation Matrix

InterceptTEMP log10(Q)
Intercept1-0.5788-0.6894
TEMP -0.57881-0.1037
log10(Q) -0.6894-0.10371

Reference