Quasi-arithmetic means of covariance functions with potential applications to space-time data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1830-1844

  Porcu, Emilio ^a   Mateu, Jorge ^a   Christakos, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernstein functions; Completely monotone functions; Jensen type inequalities; Nonseparability; Nonstationarity; Probability; Quasi arithmetic functionals; Random fields; Smoothness; Space time covariances; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349152073     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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