Neural Modelling from the Perspective of Selected Statistical Methods on Examples of Agricultural Applications

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dc.abstract.enModelling plays an important role in identifying and solving problems that arise in a number of scientific issues including agriculture. Research in the natural environment is often costly, labour demanding, and, in some cases, impossible to carry out. Hence, there is a need to create and use specific “substitutes” for originals, known in a broad sense as models. Owing to the dynamic development of computer techniques, simulation models, in the form of information technology (IT) systems that support cognitive processes (of various types), are acquiring significant importance. Models primarily serve to provide a better understanding of studied empirical systems, and for efficient design of new systems as well as their rapid (and also inexpensive) improvement. Empirical mathematical models that are based on artificial neural networks and mathematical statistical methods have many similarities. In practice, scientific methodologies all use different terminology, which is mainly due to historical factors. Unfortunately, this distorts an overview of their mutual correlations, and therefore, fundamentally hinders an adequate comparative analysis of the methods. Using neural modelling terminology, statisticians are primarily concerned with the process of generalisation that involves analysing previously acquired noisy empirical data. Indeed, the objects of analyses, whether statistical or neural, are generally the results of experiments that, by their nature, are subject to various types of errors, including measurement errors. In this overview, we identify and highlight areas of correlation and interfacing between several selected neural network models and relevant, commonly used statistical methods that are frequently applied in agriculture. Examples are provided on the assessment of the quality of plant and animal production, pest risks, and the quality of agricultural environments.
dc.affiliationWydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Inżynierii Mechanicznej
dc.affiliationWydział Rolnictwa, Ogrodnictwa i Biotechnologii
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Inżynierii Biosystemów
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Entomologii i Ochrony Środowiska
dc.contributor.authorBoniecki, Piotr
dc.contributor.authorSujak, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorNiedbała, Gniewko
dc.contributor.authorPiekarska-Boniecka, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorWawrzyniak, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorPrzybylak, Andrzej Mieczysław
dc.date.access2025-05-26
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-27T08:13:01Z
dc.date.available2025-08-27T08:13:01Z
dc.date.copyright2023-03-25
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>Modelling plays an important role in identifying and solving problems that arise in a number of scientific issues including agriculture. Research in the natural environment is often costly, labour demanding, and, in some cases, impossible to carry out. Hence, there is a need to create and use specific “substitutes” for originals, known in a broad sense as models. Owing to the dynamic development of computer techniques, simulation models, in the form of information technology (IT) systems that support cognitive processes (of various types), are acquiring significant importance. Models primarily serve to provide a better understanding of studied empirical systems, and for efficient design of new systems as well as their rapid (and also inexpensive) improvement. Empirical mathematical models that are based on artificial neural networks and mathematical statistical methods have many similarities. In practice, scientific methodologies all use different terminology, which is mainly due to historical factors. Unfortunately, this distorts an overview of their mutual correlations, and therefore, fundamentally hinders an adequate comparative analysis of the methods. Using neural modelling terminology, statisticians are primarily concerned with the process of generalisation that involves analysing previously acquired noisy empirical data. Indeed, the objects of analyses, whether statistical or neural, are generally the results of experiments that, by their nature, are subject to various types of errors, including measurement errors. In this overview, we identify and highlight areas of correlation and interfacing between several selected neural network models and relevant, commonly used statistical methods that are frequently applied in agriculture. Examples are provided on the assessment of the quality of plant and animal production, pest risks, and the quality of agricultural environments.</jats:p>
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dc.identifier.doi10.3390/agriculture13040762
dc.identifier.issn2077-0472
dc.identifier.urihttps://sciencerep.up.poznan.pl/handle/item/4411
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dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofAgriculture (Switzerland)
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dc.subject.enartificial neural networks
dc.subject.enempirical data analysis
dc.subject.enstatistical methods
dc.subject.enagriculture
dc.titleNeural Modelling from the Perspective of Selected Statistical Methods on Examples of Agricultural Applications
dc.title.volumeSpecial Issue Digital Innovations in Agriculture
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