Hierarchical spatial models for predicting tree species assemblages across large domains

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1052-1079

  Finley, Andrew O ^a   Banerjee, Sudipto ^b   McRoberts, Ronald E ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Logistic regression; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Spatial predictive process; Spatially varying coefficients; Species assemblages

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954501879     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOAS250     Document Type: Article

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