Bayesian entropy for spatial sampling design of environmental data

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-340

  Fuentes, Montserrat ^a   Chaudhuri, Arin ^b   Holland, David M ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAS INSTITUTE INC   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Mat rn covariance; National air quality standards; Nonstationarity; Simulated annealing; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MARKOV CHAIN; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548031628     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0017-0     Document Type: Article

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