Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Spatial Covariance Parameters

Mathematical Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-108

  Pardo Igúzquiza, Eulogio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geostatistics; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mean square error; Sampling distribution; Spatial covariance

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; SPATIAL COVARIANCE;

EID: 0031804458     PISSN: 08828121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021765405952     Document Type: Article

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