Improvements of the maximum pseudo-likelihood estimators in various spatial statistical models

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 510-530

  Huang, Fuchun ^a   Ogata, Yosihiko ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auto normal model; Gibbs sampling; Ising model; Metropolis algorithm; Newton Raphson transformation; Pairwise interacted point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245942     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.1999.10474829     Document Type: Article

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