Estimation and simulation of lognormal random fields

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-31

  Lee, Yuh Ming ^a   Hugh Ellis, J ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Maximum entropy estimator; Simple lognormal Kriging; Simulated annealing; Turning bands method; Uniformly minimum variance unbiased (UMVU) estimator

Indexed keywords

KRIGING; LOGNORMAL MAXIMUM ENTROPY; LOGNORMAL RANDOM FIELD;

EID: 0030739586     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(96)00069-6     Document Type: Article

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