A goodness of fit measure related to r² for model performance assessment
dc.contributor.author | Bardsley, W. Earl | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-13T23:12:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-13T23:12:25Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2013-06-11 | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.description.abstract | Checking the predictive worth of an environmental model inevitably includes a goodness of fit metric to quantify the degree of matching to recorded data, thereby giving a measure of model performance. Considerable analysis and discussion have taken place over fit indices in hydrology, but a neglected aspect is the degree of communicability to other disciplines. It is suggested that a fit index is best communicated to colleagues via reference to models giving unbiased predictions, because unbiased environmental models are a desirable goal across disciplines. That is, broad recognition of a fit index is aided if it simplifies in the unbiased case to a familiar and logical expression. This does not hold for the Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiency E which reduces to the somewhat awkward unbiased expression E = 2 – 1/r², where r² is the coefficient of determination. A new goodness of fit index V is proposed for model validation as V = r²/(2-E), which simplifies to the easily communicated V = r4 in the unbiased case. The index is defined over the range 0 ≤ V ≤ 1, and it happens that V < E for larger values of E. Some synthetic and recorded data sets are used to illustrate characteristics of V in comparison to E | en_NZ |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bardsley, W. E. (2013). A goodness of fit measure related to r² for model performance assessment. Hydrological Processes, published online 11 June 2013. | en_NZ |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/hyp.9914 | en_NZ |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7713 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_NZ |
dc.relation.ispartof | Hydrological Processes | |
dc.relation.uri | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9914/abstract | en_NZ |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of an article published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9914/abstract. | |
dc.subject | fit | en_NZ |
dc.subject | index | en_NZ |
dc.subject | model | en_NZ |
dc.subject | communication | en_NZ |
dc.title | A goodness of fit measure related to r² for model performance assessment | en_NZ |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_NZ |
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