A case study competition among methods for analyzing large spatial data

DOI10.1007/s13253-018-00348-wzbMath1426.62345arXiv1710.05013OpenAlexW2799211855WikidataQ93184561 ScholiaQ93184561MaRDI QIDQ2272997

Furong Sun, Reinhard Furrer, Andrew O. Finley, Abhirup Datta, Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, Matthew J. Heaton, Florian Gerber, Robert B. Gramacy, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, Matthias Katzfuss, Finn Lindgren, Dorit Hammerling, Douglas W. Nychka, Joseph Guinness

Publication date: 18 September 2019

Published in: Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05013

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian processparallel computinglow-rank approximationbig data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

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