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Kansas Real-Time Water Quality

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #1

log10(SS) = 0.133 + 0.945 log10(TURB)

where:

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements: 43
Mean squared error: 0.02013561
Multiple R2: 0.9475
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1.04742

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept0.1330.0819
log10(TURB) 0.9450.0348

Correlation Matrix

Interceptlog10(TURB)
Intercept1-0.9645
log10(TURB) -0.96451

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.