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Modelling the Baltic Sea food web with a Dynamic Bayesian Network with hidden variables

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dc.date.accessioned 2017-06-20T11:16:02Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:24:25Z
dc.date.available 2017-06-20T11:16:02Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:24:25Z
dc.date.issued 2017-06-20T11:16:02Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/6127 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/6127
dc.title Modelling the Baltic Sea food web with a Dynamic Bayesian Network with hidden variables en
ethesis.discipline Computer science en
ethesis.discipline Tietojenkäsittelytiede fi
ethesis.discipline Datavetenskap sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/1dcabbeb-f422-4eec-aaff-bb11d7501348
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/225405e8-3362-4197-a7fd-6e7b79e52d14
ethesis.department Institutionen för datavetenskap sv
ethesis.department Department of Computer Science en
ethesis.department Tietojenkäsittelytieteen laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Uusitalo, Laura
dct.issued 2017
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract Protection of the functioning of ecosystems requires understanding of the ecological processes, which, however, are highly complex on multiple spatial and temporal scales. This complexity is a major challenge for modellers, particularly as ecological data are often scarce, and ecosystems are known to sometimes undergo relatively fast structural changes that have a major effect on the ecosystem dynamics. These changes may be driven by unobserved variables, i.e. ecosystem components that we do not have data on. This thesis fits a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) model to one such ecosystem, the Baltic Sea. Three versions of a DBN of the Gotland Basin food web are fitted to data, to evaluate the role of different setup of hidden variables. The hidden variables were able to find similar patterns and links to observed variables in the time series regardless of their exact setup. The models predicted the last three years of the data rather poorly, which is probably due to a change in the time series exactly at the beginning of the predicted period. This indicates that while the hidden variables were able to pick up patterns in the data, there are still ecosystem changes that the model cannot predict. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112251280
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