Nonparametric estimation of the variogram and its spectrum

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 775-789

  Huang, Chunfeng ^a   Hsing, Tailen ^b   Cressie, Noel ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bochner's Theorem; Decadal temperature change; Generalized crossvalidation; Mean integrated squared error; Smoothing spline

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255192881     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr056     Document Type: Article

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