Estimation of faraday rotation measures of the near galactic sky using Gaussian process models

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 665-680

  Short, Margaret B ^a   Higdony, David M ^b   Kronbergz, Philipp P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Los Alamos National Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Error mixture model; Gaussian process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953650511     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-BA226     Document Type: Article

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