Modeling large scale species abundance with latent spatial processes

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1403-1429

  Chakraborty, Avishek ^a   Gelfand, Alan E ^a   Wilson, Adam M ^b   Latimer, Andrew M ^c   Silander Jr , John A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive prior; Latent variables; Misalignment; Ordinal categorical data; Parallel computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053389161     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS335     Document Type: Article

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