Bernoulli
- Bernoulli
- Volume 7, Number 3 (2001), 421-438.
On the effect of covariance function estimation on the accuracy of kriging predictors
Hein Putter and G. Alastair Young
Abstract
The kriging procedure gives an optimal linear predictor of a spatial process at a point x0, given observations of the process at other locations x1,...,xn, taking into account the spatial dependence of the observations. The kriging predictor is optimal if the weights are calculated from the correct underlying covariance structure. In practice, this covariance structure is unknown and is estimated from the data. An important, but not very well understood, problem in kriging theory is the effect on the accuracy of the kriging predictor of substituting the optimal weights by weights derived from the estimated covariance structure. We show that the effect of estimation is negligible asymptotically if the joint Gaussian distributions of the process at x0,...,xn under the true and the estimated covariance are contiguous almost surely. We consider a number of commonly used parametric covariance models where this can indeed be achieved.
Article information
Source
Bernoulli, Volume 7, Number 3 (2001), 421-438.
Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 22 March 2004
Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1080004758
Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2002c:62145
Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0987.62061
Keywords
contiguity covariance function estimation Gaussian process kriging spatial prediction spectral density
Citation
Putter, Hein; Alastair Young, G. On the effect of covariance function estimation on the accuracy of kriging predictors. Bernoulli 7 (2001), no. 3, 421--438. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1080004758
