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Professor Noel Cressie

2013

Inference

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Models And Inference For Clustering Of Locations Of Mines And Minelike Objects, Noel A. Cressie, Andrew B. Lawson Feb 2013

Models And Inference For Clustering Of Locations Of Mines And Minelike Objects, Noel A. Cressie, Andrew B. Lawson

Professor Noel Cressie

Mines and mine-like objects are distributed throughout an area of interest. Remote sensing of the area form an aircraft yields image data that represent the superposition of electromagnetic emissions from the mines and mine-like objects. In this article we build a hierarchical statistical model for the reconstruction of mien locations given a point pattern of the superposition of mines and mine-like objects. It is shown how inference on the mine locations can be obtained using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods.


Asymptotic Inference For Spatial Cdfs Over Time, Jun Zhu, S N. Lahiri, Noel A. Cressie Feb 2013

Asymptotic Inference For Spatial Cdfs Over Time, Jun Zhu, S N. Lahiri, Noel A. Cressie

Professor Noel Cressie

A spatial cumulative distribution function (SCDF) is a random function that provides a statistical summary of a random process over a spatial domain of interest. In this paper, we consider a spatio-temporal process and establish statistical methodology to analyze changes in the SCDF over time. We develop hypothesis testing to detect a difference in the spatial random processes at two time points, and we construct a prediction interval to quantify such discrepancy in the corresponding SCDFs. Using a spatial subsampling method, we show that our inferences are valid asymptotically. As an illustration, we apply these inference procedures to test and …