Designing environmental monitoring networks to measure extremes

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-321

  Chang, Howard ^a   Fu, Audrey Qiuyan ^b   Le, Nhu D ^c   Zidek, James V ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian hierarchical models; Extreme values; Generalized inverted Wishart; Maxent; Maximum entropy; Multivariate extremes; Space time models; Spatial design

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MONITORING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

RHODOCOCCUS RHODOCHROUS;

EID: 34548051594     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0020-5     Document Type: Article

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