Objective bayesian analysis of spatially correlated data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 456, 2001, Pages 1361-1374

  Berger, James O ^a   De Oliveira, Victor ^b   Sansó, Bruno ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Correlation function; Covariance selection; Frequentist coverage; Gaussian random field; Geostatistics; Improper posterior; Integrated likelihood; Jeffreys prior; Reference prior

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542679193     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753382282     Document Type: Article

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