Statistical assessment of numerical models

International Statistical Review

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-221

  Fuentes, Montserrat ^a   Guttorp, Peter ^b   Challenor, Peter ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Kriging; Nonstationary spatial covariance; Spatial deformation model; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042178289     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2003.tb00193.x     Document Type: Article

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