The parameter estimate from an aquifer test commonly informs a decision:
- how much can be pumped;
- how long pumping can continue;
- how much residual head is acceptable;
- how conservative the design threshold should be;
- whether recovery will be fast enough.
Transformation uncertainty becomes operational when it is propagated to the decision variable. Without that step, its practical consequence remains unspecified.
Future studies should show where a flux-gradient mismatch, analytical-model choice, or fitted difference changes a decision variable, as well as where it changes the fitted response.
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