Bayesian palaeoclimate reconstruction

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-438

  Haslett, J ^a   Whiley, M ^b   Bhattacharya, S ^c   Salter Townshend, M ^a   Wilson, Simon P ^a   Allen, J R M ^d   Huntley, B ^d   Mitchell, F J G ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b AMGEN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climatology; Compositional data; Cross validation; Dirichlet multinomial distribution; Inverse problems; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Random walk with long tailed innovations; Space time process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745037016     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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