Mapping ancient forests: Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal trends in forest composition using the fossil pollen proxy record

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 608-622

  Paciorek, Christopher J ^a   Mclachlan, Jason S ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet multinomial; Gaussian process; Paleoecology; Radial basis functions; Smoothing; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549103631     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0026     Document Type: Article

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