Spatial modeling and prediction under stationary non-geometric range anistropy

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 165-178

  Ecker, Mark D ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Bessel function; Kriging; Monotonicity; Variogram

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MODELING; PREDICTION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 0038712796     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023600123559     Document Type: Article

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