Maximum likelihood and restricted maximum likelihood estimation for a class of Gaussian Markov random fields

Metrika

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-183

  de Oliveira, Victor ^a   Ferreira, Marco A R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenvalues and eigenvectors; Profile likelihood; Restricted likelihood; Spatial data

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960643836     PISSN: 00261335     EISSN: 1435926X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00184-009-0295-7     Document Type: Article

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