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Table 2 Predictive capability of the estimation approaches by target station and radius of influence (number of neighboring stations)

From: Alternative approaches for estimating missing climate data: application to monthly precipitation records in South-Central Chile

Estimation approach	25 km (3 neighboring stations)			50 km (9 neighboring stations)
Estimation approach	RSR	PBIAS	NSE	RSR	PBIAS	NSE
Target station 1
IDW	0.167	0.218	0.969	0.162	3.092	0.971
IDW_m	0.151	−0.172	0.975	0.147	−1.987	0.976
CCW	0.220	10.599	0.946	0.297	18.965	0.905
MLR	0.142	−0.183	0.978	0.138	−0.190	0.978
ANN	0.131	−0.357	0.980	0.123	0.356	0.983
Target station 11
IDW	0.269	−11.956	0.911	0.350	−21.490	0.865
IDW_m	0.204	−2.811	0.937	0.162	1.993	0.968
CCW	0.270	−13.459	0.916	0.462	−31.408	0.766
MLR	0.191	−0.900	0.951	0.134	−0.512	0.980
ANN	0.186	−0.313	0.953	0.137	0.066	0.978

The best approach for each statistic is highlighted in bold

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