Comparing spatially-varying coefficients models for analysis of ecological data with non-stationary and anisotropic residual dependence

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-154

  Finley, Andrew O ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Gaussian process; Geographically weighted regression; Geostatistics; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Spatially varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856105430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00060.x     Document Type: Article

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