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Author Bevilacqua, M.; Camano-Carrillo, C.; Porcu, E. doi  openurl
  Title Unifying compactly supported and Matern covariance functions in spatial statistics Type
  Year 2022 Publication Journal of Multivariate Analysis Abbreviated Journal J. Multivar. Anal.  
  Volume 189 Issue Pages 104949  
  Keywords Gaussian random fields; Generalized wendland model; Fixed domain asymptotics; Sparse matrices  
  Abstract The Matern family of covariance functions has played a central role in spatial statistics for decades, being a flexible parametric class with one parameter determining the smoothness of the paths of the underlying spatial field. This paper proposes a family of spatial covariance functions, which stems from a reparameterization of the generalized Wendland family. As for the Matern case, the proposed family allows for a continuous parameterization of the smoothness of the underlying Gaussian random field, being additionally compactly supported.

More importantly, we show that the proposed covariance family generalizes the Matern model which is attained as a special limit case. This implies that the (reparametrized) Generalized Wendland model is more flexible than the Matern model with an extra-parameter that allows for switching from compactly to globally supported covariance functions.

Our numerical experiments elucidate the speed of convergence of the proposed model to the Matern model. We also inspect the asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood method when estimating the parameters of the proposed covariance models under both increasing and fixed domain asymptotics. The effectiveness of our proposal is illustrated by analyzing a georeferenced dataset of mean temperatures over a region of French, and performing a re-analysis of a large spatial point referenced dataset of yearly total precipitation anomalies.
 
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