A comparison of block and semi-parametric bootstrap methods for variance estimation in spatial statistics

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 578-587

  Iranpanah, N ^a   Mohammadzadeh, M ^b   Taylor, C C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coal ash data; Monte Carlo simulation; Moving block bootstrap; Plug in kriging; Semi parametric bootstrap

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL; COAL ASH; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

KRIGING; MOVING BLOCK; SEMIPARAMETRIC; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL CORRELATION STRUCTURES; SPATIAL DATA ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77958033081     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.05.031     Document Type: Article

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