Bayesian prediction of transformed gaussian random fields

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 440, 1997, Pages 1422-1433

  De Oliveira, Victor ^a   Kedem, Benjamin ^b   Short, David A ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Box Cox family; Cross validation; Family of transformations; Kriging; Monte Carlo integration; Rainfall; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031318603     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10473663     Document Type: Article

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