Analyzing spatiotemporal trends in social media data via smoothing spline analysis of variance

Spatial Statistics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2015, Pages 491-504

  Helwig, Nathaniel E ^a   Gao, Yizhao ^b   Wang, Shaowen ^b   Ma, Ping ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Smoothing spline; Social media; Spatial smoothing; Spatiotemporal smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948960670     PISSN: 22116753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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