Spatial modeling for risk assessment of extreme values from environmental time series: A Bayesian nonparametric approach

Environmetrics

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 649-662

  Kottas, Athanasios ^a   Wang, Ziwei ^a   Rodríguez, Abel ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet process mixture model; Gaussian process; Non homogeneous Poisson process; Rainfall precipitation; Spatial Dirichlet process

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTREME EVENT; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84871680049     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.2177     Document Type: Article

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