Model-free forecasting outperforms the correct mechanistic model for simulated and experimental data

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 5253-5257

  Perretti, Charles T ^a   Munch, Stephan B ^b   Sugihara, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EXPERIMENT; FORECASTING; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; TENEBRIONIDAE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ECOSYSTEM; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84875503881     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216076110     Document Type: Article

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