Strict positive definiteness of a product of covariance functions

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 4400-4408

  De Iaco, S ^a   Myers, D E ^b   Posa, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Kronecker product; Product model; Product sum model; Separability; Strict positive definiteness

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE FUNCTION; COVARIANCE MODELS; KRIGING SYSTEMS; KRONECKER PRODUCT; POSITIVE DEFINITE; POSITIVE DEFINITENESS; PRODUCT MODELS; SEPARABILITY; SPATIAL STATISTICS; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

STATISTICS;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84856269862     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2010.513790     Document Type: Article

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