Estimating the fractal dimension of a locally self-similar gaussian process by using increments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 679-699

  Kent, John T ^a   Wood, Andrew T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filtering; Increments; Intrinsic Process; Misspecification Bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 14244255625     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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