Sandwich estimation for multi-unit reporting on a stratified heterogeneous surface

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2515-2534

  Wang, Jin Feng ^a   Haining, Robert ^b   Jiang, Cheng Sheng ^a   Liu, Tie Jun ^a   Li, Lian Fa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kriging estimates, hierarchical Bayesian estimates; Sandwich estimation, heterogeneous surface, zoning

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; KRIGING; MODEL TEST; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; ZONING POLICY;

EID: 84886789529     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44710     Document Type: Article

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