“…There are various statistical methods that were adopted by various authors for groundwater potential mapping elsewhere such as: frequency ratio (Guru et al 2017;Al-Zuhairy et al 2017;Razandi et al 2015), Analytical hierarchical process Chowdhury et al 2009;Razandi et al 2015), binary logistic regression method (Ozdemir 2011a), weight of evidence model (Ghorbani et al 2017;Tahmassebipoor et al 2016;Ozdemir 2011b), k-nearest neighbor (Naghibi and Dashtpagerdi 2017), Demster-Shafer model , machine learning model/artificial neural network (Lee et al 2012), boosted regression tree BRT (Naghibi and Pourghasemi 2015;Naghibi et al 2016), multivariate adaptive regression spline (Zabihi et al 2016), maximum, entropy model ), generalized adaptive model (Falah et al 2016), random forest model (Rahmati et al 2018), and other GIS-based models such as earth observation and entropy weighted linear aggregate novel approach (Bandyopadhyay et al 2007;Al-Abadi et al 2016). In the above studies, themes such as vegetation, land use/land cover, hydrogeomorphology, drainage, lithology, subsurface lithology, structure, and slope were interpreted to infer groundwater potential.…”