"Optimal Spatial Prediction for Non-negative Spatial Processes Using a " by Noel Cressie, Alan R. Pearse et al.
A major component of inference in spatial statistics is that of spatial prediction of an unknown value from an underlying spatial process, based on noisy measurements of the process taken at various locations in a spatial domain. The most commonly used predictor is the conditional expectation of the unknown value given the data, and its calculation is obtained from assumptions about the probability distribution of the process and the measurements of that process. The conditional expectation is unbiased and minimises the mean-squared prediction error, which can be interpreted as the uncondition...
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