On the asymptotic joint distribution of sample space-time covariance estimators

Bernoulli

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 228-248

  Li, Bo ^a   Genton, Marc G ^b,c   Sherman, Michael ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Covariance; Increasing domain asymptotics; Mixing; Random field

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449114139     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/07-BEJ6196     Document Type: Article

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