The effect of the nugget on Gaussian process emulators of computer models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4215-4228

  Andrianakis, Ioannis ^a   Challenor, Peter G ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approximation; Computer experiments; Ill conditioning; Interpolation; Kriging

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION; APPROXIMATION ERRORS; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; COMPUTER MODELS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN PROCESS EMULATORS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; ILL-CONDITIONING; KRIGING; LEAST SQUARE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PENALTY TERM; PRACTICAL METHOD; REGRESSION FUNCTION; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TYPE II; UNCERTAINTY BOUNDS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTERPOLATION;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

EID: 84864129391     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.04.020     Document Type: Article

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