Using the Gibbs sampler for conditional simulation of Gaussian-based random fields

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 522-537

  Emery, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Bivariate distributions; Gaussian random field; Geostatistics; Indicator variogram; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BIVARIATE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN RANDOM FIELD; GEOSTATISTICS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 33947106929     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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