“…In some studies, data mining models such as frequency ratio (FR) (Oh et al, 2011;Davoodi Moghaddam et al, 2015), weights-of-evidence (WOE) (Ozdemir, 2011;Lee et al, 2012a;Pourtaghi and Pourghasemi, 2014), evidential belief function (EBF) (Nampak et al, 2014;Pourghasemi and Beheshtirad, 2014;Tahmassebipoor et al, 2015;Ghorbani Nejad et al, 2016), and certainty factor (CF) (Razandi et al, 2015) have been used for assessing groundwater potentiality. Furthermore, numerous studies have described the application of the logistic regression (LR) (Ozdemir, 2011;Pourtaghi and Pourghasemi, 2014), artificial neural network model (ANN) (Lee et al, 2012b), random forest , and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) (Adiat et al, 2012;Rahmati et al, 2014;Shekhar and Pandey, 2014) for preparing the GPM.…”