Approximate likelihood for large irregularly spaced spatial data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 477, 2007, Pages 321-331

  Fuentes, Montserrat ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Covariance; Fourier transform; Periodogram; Satellite data; Sea surface temperatures; Spatial likelihood; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947194951     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214506000000852     Document Type: Article

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