Data augmentation for a Bayesian spatial model involving censored observations

Environmetrics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-123

  Fridley, Brooke L ^a,c   Dixon, Philip ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Below detection limit observations; Censored data; Kriging; Spatial correlation; Varioram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; KRIGING; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SPATIAL VARIATION; VARIOGRAM;

MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947152385     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.806     Document Type: Article

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