Discussing the "big n problem"

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-112

  Jona Lasinio, Giovanna ^a   Mastrantonio, Gianluca ^a   Pollice, Alessio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

INLA; Large spatial data sets; Spatial statistics; SPDE; Tapering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874691303     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-012-0207-2     Document Type: Article

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