Parameter estimation for computationally intensive nonlinear regression with an application to climate modeling

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1217-1230

  Drignei, Dorin ^a   Forest, Chris E ^a   Nychka, Doug ^a  

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Author keywords

Equilibrium climate sensitivity; Observed and modeled climate; Space time modeling; Statistical surrogate; Temperature data

Indexed keywords

EID: 78249281108     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS210     Document Type: Article

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