Assessing First-Order Emulator Inference for Physical Parameters in Nonlinear Mechanistic Models

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 475-494

  Hooten, Mevin B ^a   Leeds, William B ^b   Fiechter, Jerome ^c   Wikle, Christopher K ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Hierarchical model; Nonparametric statistics; Spatio temporal statistics

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

EID: 83555177267     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-011-0073-7     Document Type: Article

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