Variance Estimation for Statistics Computed from Spatial Lattice Data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Methodological

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 509-523

  Sherman, Michael ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

mixing; moment estimation; random field; resampling; spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000943815     PISSN: 00359246     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2517-6161.1996.tb02097.x     Document Type: Article

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