A composite likelihood approach to semivariogram estimation

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-28

  Curriero, Frank C ^a   Lele, Subhash ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimating functions; Geometric anisotropy; Geostatistics; Kriging; Simulation; Spatial dependence; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008734913     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400419     Document Type: Article

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