A Nonstationary Multisite Model for Rainfall

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 452, 2000, Pages 1089-1100

  Sansó, Bruno ^a   Guenni, Lelys ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Bayesian spatio temporal models; Non stationary time series; Nonlinear time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442325059     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474305     Document Type: Article

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