The Dagum family of isotropic correlation functions

Bernoulli

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1134-1149

  Berg, Christian ^a   Mateu, Jorge ^b   Porcu, Emilio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bernstein function; Completely monotonic function; Dagum family; Isotropy; Logarithmically completely monotonic function; Stieltjes transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149339859     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/08-BEJ139     Document Type: Article

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