A geostatistical approach to define guidelines for radon prone area identification

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-276

  Borgoni, Riccardo ^a   Quatto, Piero ^a   Somà, Giorgio ^a   de Bartolo, Daniela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b ARPA Lombardia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Change of support problem; Geostatistical conditional simulation; Kriging; Radon prone areas

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952553876     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-009-0128-x     Document Type: Article

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