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Statistical evaluation and choice of soil water retention models
Ist Teil von
Water resources research, 2008-12, Vol.44 (12), p.W12424-n/a
Ort / Verlag
American Geophysical Union
Erscheinungsjahr
2008
Quelle
Wiley-Blackwell Journals
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This paper presents the results of statistical investigations for the evaluation of soil water retention models (SWRMs). We employed three different methods developed for model selection in the field of nonlinear regression, namely, simulation studies, analysis of nonlinearity measures, and resampling strategies such as cross validation and bootstrap methods. Using these methods together with small data sets, we evaluated the performance of three exemplarily chosen types of SWRMs with respect to their parameter properties and the reliability of model predictions. The resulting rankings of models show that the favorable models are characterized by few parameters with an almost linear estimation behavior and close to symmetric distributions. To further demonstrate the potential of the statistical methods in the field of model selection, a modification of the four‐parameter van Genuchten model is proposed which shows significantly improved and robust statistical properties.