Nonlinear prediction of crown–of–thorns outbreaks on the great barrier reef
作者:
P. Antonelli,
R. Bradbury,
R. Buck,
R. Reichelt,
R. Elliott,
期刊:
Stochastic Analysis and Applications
(Taylor Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 4
页码: 349-363
ISSN:0736-2994
年代: 1988
DOI:10.1080/07362998808809154
出版商: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The Zakai form of nonlinear prediction theory is used to estimate yearto-year state changes in crown-of-thorns starfish populations of the Great Barrier Reef. Taking the previously defined coral-state diffusion as observation process and the starfish-state diffusion as signal process, a least squares polynomial regression curve recently derived for simultaneously collected starfish/coral state data is used to set up the prediction preliminaries, Numerical results are not inconsistant with starfish outbreak values of the last 5 years and yield an expected high value for 1987. However, because of large error in the data it is doubtful that a more refined mesh for the Mihlstein approximations used to evaluate the Îto stochastic integrals involved in Zakai theory would improve the accuracy of predictions.
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