A new spatial skew-normal random field model

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1821-1834

  Allard, Denis ^a   Naveau, Philippe ^b  

^a INRA   (France)

^b INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

Author keywords

Multivariate skew normal distribution; Orthant probabilities; Variogram

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIVARIATE SKEW NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM FIELD MODELS; TRUNCATED GAUSSIAN; VARIOGRAMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 34547345212     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920601126290     Document Type: Article

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