Gradients in spatial response surfaces with application to urban land values

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-90

  Majumdar, Anandamayee ^a   Munneke, Henry J ^b   Gelfand, Alan E ^c   Banerjee, Sudipto ^d   Slrmans, C F ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian framework; Coregionalization; Directional derivative; Finite directional difference; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multivariate spatial process

Indexed keywords

EID: 30744477948     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500105000000162     Document Type: Review

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