Point and interval estimation of variogram models using spatial empirical likelihood

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 481, 2008, Pages 350-361

  Nordman, Daniel J ^a   Caragea, Petruţa C ^a  

^a E005A Lagomarcino Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

Increasing domain asymptotics; Least squares estimator; Spatial regression; Spatial subsampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349085288     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000001391     Document Type: Article

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