Approximating likelihoods for large spatial data sets

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

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 275-296

  Stein, Michael L ^a   Chi, Zhiyi ^a   Welty, Leah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Estimating equations; Restricted maximum likelihood; Variogram estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442600120     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1369-7412.2003.05512.x     Document Type: Article

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