Modelling spatio-temporal data: A new variogram and covariance structure proposal

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-89

  Porcu, E ^a   Mateu, J ^a   Zini, A ^b   Pini, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Criteria of P lya type; Dagum survival function; Nonseparability; Positive definite radial functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750528220     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.05.013     Document Type: Article

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