Bayesian wombling: Curvilinear gradient assessment under spatial process models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 101, Issue 476, 2006, Pages 1487-1501

  Banerjee, Sudipto ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arc length measure; Bayesian modeling; Directional derivative; Flux; Gaussian process; Line integral; Parametric curve; Wombling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846076337     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000041     Document Type: Article

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