Robust Resampling Confidence Intervals for Empirical Variograms

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-259

  Clark, Robert Graham ^a   Allingham, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Block bootstrap; Block jackknife; Bootstrap; Jackknife; Spatial analysis; Variograms

Indexed keywords

METADATA; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BLOCK BOOTSTRAPS; BLOCK JACKKNIFE; BOOTSTRAP; JACKKNIFE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIOGRAMS;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 78751664765     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-010-9314-5     Document Type: Article

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