Hierarchical modeling of count data with application to nuclear fall-out

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 179-200

  Hrafnkelsson, Birgir ^a   Cressie, Noel ^b  

^a DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian models; Calibrating spatial models; Geostatistics; Markov random fields; MCMC; Poisson random variables; Spatial prediction; Spatial priors

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICS; MODELING;

EID: 0038374440     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023674107629     Document Type: Article

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