CALCULATION OF THE COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION (CoD)

To be used in conjunction with the book:

Assessment of treatment plant performance and water quality data. A guide for students, researchers and practitioners
Marcos von Sperling, Matt Verbyla and Sílvia Oliveira
IWA Publishing (2019)
Note: this spreadsheet if for didactic purposes only.
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Fill-in cells in yellow. The other cells are for calculations and results.

Data sequence Y obs Y est (Yobs - Yest)^2 (Yobs-Yobs mean)^2

1 3.00 3.40 0.16 0.36
2 5.00 4.60 0.16 1.96
3 3.50 3.80 0.09 0.01
4 2.50 2.10 0.16 1.21
5 4.00 4.50 0.25 0.16

Mean 3.60 Sum 0.82 3.7

CoD = 0.7784

Direct calculation of CoD without auxiliary columns, using functions SUMXMY2 (numerator) and DEVSQ (denominator)

CoD = 0.7784
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