A comparison between Markov approximations and other methods for large spatial data sets

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2012.11.011zbMATH Open1349.62445DBLPjournals/csda/BolinL13arXiv1106.1980OpenAlexW2158359474WikidataQ57266351 ScholiaQ57266351MaRDI QIDQ333683FDOQ333683

Authors: David Bolin, Finn Lindgren 

Publication date: 31 October 2016

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Mat'ern covariance function is a popular choice for modeling dependence in spatial environmental data. Standard Mat'ern covariance models are, however, often computationally infeasible for large data sets. In this work, recent results for Markov approximations of Gaussian Mat'{e}rn fields based on Hilbert space approximations are extended using wavelet basis functions. These Markov approximations are compared with two of the most popular methods for efficient covariance approximations; covariance tapering and the process convolution method. The results show that, for a given computational cost, the Markov methods have a substantial gain in accuracy compared with the other methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.1980

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zbMATH Keywords

waveletskriging[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=Mat%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDrn+covariances&go=Go Mat��rn covariances]Markov random fieldscovariance taperingprocess convolutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Random fields; image analysis (62M40)

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Uses Software

• GMRFLib
• FRK

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