Point pattern modelling for degraded presence-only data over large regions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 757-776

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

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian process; Intensity surface; Land use transformation; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Predictive spatial process; Sampling bias; Spatial point pattern

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053401740     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.00769.x     Document Type: Article

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