MATHEMATICAL MODELLING OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS

Modeling the estimate of the volume of recreational fishing based on the Bayesian approach

  • 1 System research company "Factor"
  • 2 Research and Production Center for Fisheries, Kazakhstan

Abstract

In this paper we consider the task of estimating the volume of recreational fish catch yield in a water body. We design mathematical models for the tasks varying in complexity and generality and demonstrate how they can be solved using Bayesian approach. A Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based Bayesian approach is widely used as a solution for stochastic models. To solve the simplest case of a proposed model we have used the PyMC library. The proposed models were later used to estimate the recreational fishing capacity of the water bodies in Qazaqstan.

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