In order to make spatial statistics computationally feasible, we need to forget about the covariance function

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-74

  Simpson, Daniel ^a   Lindgren, Finn ^a   Rue, Håvard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Covariance functions; GMRF; Kernel methods; SPDE

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; EQUATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84855962617     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.1137     Document Type: Article

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