TY - BOOK AU - Rue,Havard AU - Held, Leonhard TI - Gaussian Markov random fields: theory and applications SN - 1584884320 U1 - 519.233 PY - 2005/// CY - Boca Ratan PB - Chapman Hall KW - Gaussian Markov random fields N1 - Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) models are most widely used in spatial statistics -a very active area of research in which few up-to-date reference works are available. This book provides a unified framework of GMRFs with particular emphasis on the computational aspects. It includes extensive case studies and an online C-library for fast and exact simulation. With chapters contributed by leading researchers in the field, this book may be a valuable reading for statisticians working in spatial theory and its applications, as well as quantitative researchers in a wide range of fields in which spatial data analysis is important ER -