INLA or MCMC? A tutorial and comparative evaluation for spatial prediction in log-Gaussian Cox processes

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2266-2284

  Taylor, Benjamin M ^a   Diggle, Peter J ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

integrated nested Laplace approximation; log Gaussian Cox process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902670046     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2013.788653     Document Type: Article

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