Estimating and testing zones of abrupt change for spatial data

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-120

  Gabriel, Edith ^a,b   Allard, Denis ^a   Bacro, Jean Noël ^c  

^a INRA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Excursion set; Gaussian random fields; Geostatistics; Gradient estimation; Wombling

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650303737     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11222-009-9151-x     Document Type: Article

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