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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">csat</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Computational Science and Techniques</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub"/>
      <issn pub-type="ppub"/>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">BALTMISKYTE_FINAL</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Article</subject>
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      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Baltic sea algae analysis using Bayesian spatial statistics methods</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Baltmiškytė</surname>
            <given-names>Eglė</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:egle.baltmiskyte@gmail.com">egle.baltmiskyte@gmail.com</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_csat_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_csat_aff_000">Klaipeda University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="Author">
          <name>
            <surname>Dučinskas</surname>
            <given-names>Kęstutis</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Kestutis.Ducinskas@ku.lt">Kestutis.Ducinskas@ku.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_csat_aff_001"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor2">∗∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_csat_aff_001">Klaipeda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor2"><label>∗∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>1</fpage>
      <lpage>10</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>02</month>
        <year>2013</year>
      </pub-date>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2013</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">
          <license-p>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>Spatial statistics is one of the fields in statistics dealing with spatialy spread data analysis. Recently, Bayes methods are often applied for data statistical analysis. A spatial data model for predicting algae quantity in the Baltic Sea is made and described in this article. Black Carrageen is a dependent variable and depth, sand, pebble, boulders are independent variables in the described model. Two models with different covariation functions (Gaussian and exponential) are built to estimate the best model fitting for algae quantity prediction. Unknown model parameters are estimated and Bayesian kriging prediction posterior distribution is computed in OpenBUGS modeling environment by using Bayesian spatial statistics methods.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Bayesian statistics</kwd>
        <kwd>Spatial statistics</kwd>
        <kwd>Bayesian kriging</kwd>
        <kwd>OpenBUGS</kwd>
        <kwd>Gibbs sampling</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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