A loss function approach to identifying environmental exceedances

Extremes

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 143-159

  Craigmile, Peter F ^a   Cressie, Noel ^a   Santner, Thomas J ^a   Rao, Youlan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes predictor; Bayesian hierarchical models; Extremes; Geostatistics; Integrated weighted quantile squared error loss; Markov chain Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748323379     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-006-7964-y     Document Type: Article

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