Download or read book Gaussian Markov Random Fields written by Havard Rue and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is the first book on the subject that provides a unified framework of GMRFs with particular emphasis on the computational aspects. This book includes extensive case-studie