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+title: 'PSimPy: Predictive and probabilistic simulation with Python'
+tags:
+  - Python
+  - R
+  - gaussian process emulation
+  - model calibration
+  - active learning
+authors:
+  - name: Anil Yildiz
+    orcid: 0000-0002-2257-7025
+    corresponding: true
+    affiliation: 1
+  - name: Hu Zhao
+    affiliation: 1
+  - name: Nazanin Bagherinejad
+    affiliation: 1
+  - name: Julia Kowalski
+    affiliation: 1
+affiliations:
+ - name: Methods for Model-based Development in Computational Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
+   index: 1
+date: 04 April 2025
+bibliography: paper.bib
+---
+
+# Summary
+
+# Statement of need
+
+
+# Mathematics
+
+Single dollars ($) are required for inline mathematics e.g. $f(x) = e^{\pi/x}$
+
+Double dollars make self-standing equations:
+
+$$\Theta(x) = \left\{\begin{array}{l}
+0\textrm{ if } x < 0\cr
+1\textrm{ else}
+\end{array}\right.$$
+
+You can also use plain \LaTeX for equations
+\begin{equation}\label{eq:fourier}
+\hat f(\omega) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty} f(x) e^{i\omega x} dx
+\end{equation}
+and refer to \autoref{eq:fourier} from text.
+
+# Citations
+
+Citations to entries in paper.bib should be in
+[rMarkdown](http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_bibliographies_and_citations.html)
+format.
+
+If you want to cite a software repository URL (e.g. something on GitHub without a preferred
+citation) then you can do it with the example BibTeX entry below for @fidgit.
+
+For a quick reference, the following citation commands can be used:
+- `@author:2001`  ->  "Author et al. (2001)"
+- `[@author:2001]` -> "(Author et al., 2001)"
+- `[@author1:2001; @author2:2001]` -> "(Author1 et al., 2001; Author2 et al., 2002)"
+
+# Figures
+
+Figures can be included like this:
+![Caption for example figure.\label{fig:example}](figure.png)
+and referenced from text using \autoref{fig:example}.
+
+Figure sizes can be customized by adding an optional second parameter:
+![Caption for example figure.](figure.png){ width=20% }
+
+# Acknowledgements
+
+# References
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