Identifiability for non-stationary spatial structure

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1244-1250

  Perrin, Olivier ^b   Meiring, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bijective space deformation; Dispersion function; Isotropy; Uniqueness; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033427091     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200018027     Document Type: Article

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