Penalized maximum likelihood estimation and variable selection in geostatistics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2607-2625

  Chu, Tingjin ^a   Zhu, Jun ^b   Wang, Haonan ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariance tapering; Gaussian process; Model selection; One step sparse estimation; SCAD; Spatial linear model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879539900     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/11-AOS919     Document Type: Article

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