Applying Multi-Layer Artificial Neural Network and Mutual Information to the Prediction of Trends in Dissolved Oxygen

Predicting {\color{red}{trends in water quality}} plays an essential role in the field of environmental modelling. Though artificial neural networks (ANN) have been involved in predicting water quality in many studies, the prediction performance is highly affected by the model's inputs and neural network structure. Many researchers selected water quality variables based on Pearson correlation. However, this kind of method can only capture linear...