Estimation and prediction in spatial models with block composite likelihoods

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 295-315

  Eidsvik, Jo ^a   Shaby, Benjamin A ^b   Reich, Brian J ^c   Wheeler, Matthew ^d   Niemi, Jarad ^e  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian process; GPU; Large datasets; Parallel computing; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901788514     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2012.760460     Document Type: Article

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