Why is isotropy so prevalent in spatial statistics?

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 865-871

  Ma, Chunsheng ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance; Geometrically anisotropic; Isotropic; Negative definite; Norm; Positive definite; Variogram

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947385267     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08592-3     Document Type: Article

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