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Minnesota Real-time Water Quality

USGS station:

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Constituent:
Time period:
Model Form:

Model Form #1

log10(SSR) = 0.777 + 0.853 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: 20
Mean squared error: 0.00326041
Multiple R2: 0.968
Bias correction (smearing) factor: 1.01

Explanatory Variables

VariableValueStandard error
Intercept0.7770.0788
log10(TURB) 0.8530.0365

Correlation Matrix

Interceptlog10(TURB)
Intercept1-0.9868
log10(TURB) -0.98681

Reference