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Spatial Mat\'ern fields driven by non-Gaussian noise

Methodology 2012-06-15 v2

Abstract

The article studies non-Gaussian extensions of a recently discovered link between certain Gaussian random fields, expressed as solutions to stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs), and Gaussian Markov random fields. The focus is on non-Gaussian random fields with Mat\'ern covariance functions, and in particular we show how the SPDE formulation of a Laplace moving average model can be used to obtain an efficient simulation method as well as an accurate parameter estimation technique for the model. This should be seen as a demonstration of how these techniques can be used, and generalizations to more general SPDEs are readily available.

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@article{arxiv.1206.0622,
  title  = {Spatial Mat\'ern fields driven by non-Gaussian noise},
  author = {David Bolin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.0622},
  year   = {2012}
}
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