This study investigates sediment load prediction and generalization from laboratory scale to field scale using principle component analysis (PCA) in conjunction with data driven methods of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and genetic algorithms (GAs). Five main dimensionless parameters for...

Two robust estimators of a matrix-valued location parameter are introduced and discussed. Each is the average of the members of a subsample–typically of covariance or cross-spectrum matrices–with the subsample chosen to minimize a function of its average. In one case this function is the...