A hierarchical model for quantifying forest variables over large heterogeneous landscapes with uncertain forest areas

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 493, 2011, Pages 31-48

  Finley, Andrew O ^a   Banerjee, Sudipto ^b   MacFarlane, David W ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Biomass; Forestry; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Multivariate spatial process; Spatial models; Spatial predictive process

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954542239     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.ap09653     Document Type: Article

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