Designing and integrating composite networks for monitoring multivariate Gaussian pollution fields

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-79

  Zidek, James V ^a   Sun, Weimin ^c   Le, Nhu D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c University of British Columbia ^*

Author keywords

Air pollution; Data missing by design; Entropy; Hierarchical bayes method; Inverted wishart distribution; Kriging; Monitoring network; Nonparametric covariance estimation; Optimal design; Ozone; Spatial prediction; Sulphate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034358470     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00179     Document Type: Article

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