Fractal and smoothness properties of space-time Gaussian models

Frontiers of Mathematics in China

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1217-1248

  Xue, Yun ^a   Xiao, Yimin ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anisotropic Gaussian field; Hausdorff dimension; mean square differentiability; prediction error; sample path differentiability; Space time model

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655162008     PISSN: 16733452     EISSN: 16733576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11464-011-0126-9     Document Type: Article

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