Anisotropic spatial sampling designs for urban pollution

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

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 223-234

  Arbia, Giuseppe ^a   Lafratta, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anisotropic processes; Environmental sampling; Multidimensional scaling; Nonparametric regression; Optimal networks design; Optimal spatial sampling strategies; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036420685     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00265     Document Type: Article

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