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Pennsylvania Real-time Water Quality

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #1

log10(SSR) = 0.253 + 0.997 log10(TURB)

where:

Model Archive Summary

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

Model Calibration

Basic Data

Number of measurements: 87
Mean squared error: 0.072361
Multiple R2: 0.675
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1.25

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept0.2530.15
log10(TURB) 0.9970.0744

Correlation Matrix

Interceptlog10(TURB)
Intercept1-0.981
log10(TURB) -0.9811

Reference