Sentinel-1 backscatter observations were assimilated into the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) using an ensemble Kalman filter. As a forward operator, which is required to simulate from soil moisture and leaf area index (LAI), we evaluated both traditional water cloud model (WCM) support vector regression (SVR). With SVR, closer fit between simulations was achieved. The impact on...

 Abstract: In many applications we have to encountered with bounded dependent variables. Beta regression model can be used to deal with these kinds of response variables. In this paper we aim to study spatially correlated responses in the unit interval. Initially we introduce spatial beta generalized linear mixed model in which the spatial correlation is captured through a random effect. T...

We consider the problem of predicting total Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). A popular approach in prior literature [1], [2] has been to fit a regression model with the precipitation as predictand and various climatological indices and parameters as predictors. The predictor climatological indices and parameters are detected through an analysis of their linear correlations with the Indian...

As the World Wide Web develops, the number of new websites grows at an astounding speed. However, many web sites are designed and established without the aid of sufficient professional skills and resources, so their quality is often questionable. Therefore, evaluation of the quality of web sites becomes important. In this work, stepwise regression method is applied to assess the ranking of web ...