Protected areas are an important conservation measure. However, there are controversial findings regarding whether closed areas are beneficial for species and habitat conservation as well as landings. Species dispersal is acknowledged as a key factor for the design and impacts of closed areas. A series of agent based models using random diffusion to model fish dispersal were run before and afte...

The literature devoted to the construction of stochastic blockmodels is relatively rare compared to that of the deterministic variety. In this paper, a general definition of a stochastic blockmodel is given and a number of techniques for building such blockmodels are presented. In the statistical approach, the likelihood ratio statistic provides a natural index to evaluate the fit of the model ...

Model selection by the predictive least squares (PLS) principle has been thoroughly studied in the context of regression model selection and autoregressive (AR) model order estimation. We introduce a new criterion based on sequentially minimized squared deviations, which are smaller than both the usual least squares and the squared prediction errors used in PLS. We also prove that our criterion...

The Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle is an information theoretic approach to inductive inference that originated in algorithmic coding theory. In this approach, data are viewed as codes to be compressed by the model. From this perspective, models are compared on their ability to compress a data set by extracting useful information in the data apart from random noise. The goal of model...

We study frequentist properties of Bayesian and $L_0$ model selection, with a focus on (potentially non-linear) high-dimensional regression. propose construction to how posterior probabilities normalized criteria concentrate the (Kullback-Leibler) optimal other subsets space. When such concentration occurs, one also bounds selecting correct model, type I II errors. These results hold generally,...

abstract to evaluated oryza2000 model in iran, this study was carried out during 2004 till 2007 at rice research institute of iran, rasht. the experiment was conducted as split plot in complete randomized block design and three replicates. three irrigation levels were the main plots and four levels of n application were allocated sup-plots model. simulated and measured values leaf area index (l...

the establishment and development of industrial and free- trade zones have ever brought about a number of economic, commercial, and industrial benefits. the development of south pars special economic energy zone in the last decade, and following the policy of increasing efficiency in the common area with qatar, other aspects of economic development in kangan township have received little attent...