A likelihood-based comparison of temporal models for physical processes

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-258

  Braverman, Amy ^a   Cressie, Noel ^b   Teixeira, Joao ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocklength selection; Climate model diagnostics; Deterministic model evaluation; Moving block bootstrap; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS;

BLOCKLENGTH-SELECTION; CANDIDATE MODELS; CLIMATE MODEL DIAGNOSTIC; DETERMINISTIC MODEL EVALUATION; DETERMINISTIC MODELING; MODEL DIAGNOSTICS; MODEL EVALUATION; MOVING BLOCKS BOOTSTRAP; SUMMARY STATISTIC; TIMES SERIES;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 79955637743     PISSN: 19321872     EISSN: 19321864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sam.10113     Document Type: Article

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