Nonparametric inference in small data sets of spatially indexed curves with application to ionospheric trend determination

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-94

  Gromenko, Oleksandr ^a   Kokoszka, Piotr ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional data; Ionosphere; Long term trend; Nonparametric inference; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ERROR; COVARIATES; DATA SETS; ERROR FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL DATAS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LONG-TERM TREND; MEAN FUNCTIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC MODELING; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATORS; NONPARAMETRIC INFERENCE; PARAMETRIC METHOD; PARAMETRIC MODELING; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; SMALL DATA SET; SPACE PHYSICS; SPATIAL COVARIANCE; SPATIAL LOCATION; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

DATA STRUCTURES; ESTIMATION; IONOSPHERE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84870067120     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.09.016     Document Type: Article

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