Radial Positive Definite Functions Generated by Euclid's Hat

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 88-119

  Gneiting, Tilmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Askey's theorem; Characteristic function; Completely monotone; Correlation function; Euclid's hat; Geostatistics; Isotropic; Multiply monotone; P lya's criterion; Positive definite; Radial; Scale mixture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011904678     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1998.1800     Document Type: Article

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