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Metrics and descriptive statistics currently implemented in tidyhydro v0.1.2

Goodness-of-fit criteria

Name Abbr. Function calls Reference
Kling-Gupta Efficiency \(KGE\) kge Gupta, H.V.; Kling, H.; Yilmaz, K.K.; Martinez, G.F. (2009). Journal of Hydrology, 377(1–2), 80–91.
Modified Kling-Gupta Efficiency \(KGE'\) kge2012 Kling, H., Fuchs, M., & Paulin, M. (2012). Journal of Hydrology, 424–425, 264–277.
Log-transformed Kling-Gupta Efficiency \(KGE_{log}\) kgelog, kgelog_low, kgelog_hi Kling, J. (2023). Journal of Hydrology, 620, 129414.
Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency \(NSE\) nse Nash, J. E., & Sutcliffe, J. V. (1970). Journal of Hydrology, 10(3), 282–290.
Mean Squared Error \(MSE\) mse Clark, M. P., Vogel, R. M., Lamontagne, J. R., Mizukami, N., Knoben, W. J. M., Tang, G., Gharari, S., Freer, J. E., Whitfield, P. H., Shook, K. R., & Papalexiou, S. M. (2021). The Abuse of Popular Performance Metrics in Hydrologic Modeling. Water Resources Research, 57(9), e2020WR029001.
Percent BIAS \(pBIAS\) pbias Gupta, H. V., S. Sorooshian, and P. O. Yapo. (1999). Status of automatic calibration for hydrologic models: Comparison with multilevel expert calibration. J. Hydrologic Eng. 4(2): 135-143

Regression

Name Abbr. Function calls Reference
PRediction Error Sum of Squares \(PRESS\) press Rasmussen, P. P., Gray, J. R., Glysson, G. D. & Ziegler, A. C. Guidelines and procedures for computing time-series suspended-sediment concentrations and loads from in-stream turbidity-sensor and streamflow data. in U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods book 3, chap. C4 53 (2009)
Standard Factorial Error \(SFE\) sfe Herschy, R.W. 1978: Accuracy. Chapter 10 In: Herschy, R.W. (ed.) Hydrometry - principles and practices. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 511 p.