Hierarchical statistical modeling of big spatial datasets using the exponential family of distributions

Spatial Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-44

  Sengupta, Aritra ^a   Cressie, Noel ^a,b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Empirical Bayes; Geostatistical process; Maximum likelihood estimation; MCMC; SRE model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875356466     PISSN: 22116753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2013.02.002     Document Type: Article

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