Analysis, simulation and prediction of multivariate random fields with package randomfields

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1-25

  Schlather, Martin ^a   Malinowski, Alexander ^a   Menck, Peter J ^b   Oestin, Marco ^c   Strokorb, Kirstin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Bivariate Mat rn model; Linear model of coregionalization; Matrix valued covariance function; Multivariate geostatistics; Multivariate random field; R, Vector valued field

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922576808     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v063.i08     Document Type: Article

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