Spatial process models popular in geostatistics often represent the observed data as the sum of a smooth underlying process and white noise. The variation in the white noise is attributed to measurement error, or micro-scale variability, and is called the "nugget". We formally establish results on the identifiability and consistency of the nugget in spatial models based upon the Gaussian process within the framework of in-fill asymptotics, i.e. the sample size increases within a sampling domain that is bounded. Our work extends results in fixed domain asymptotics for spatial models without the nugget. More specifically, we establish the identifiability of parameters in the Matérn covariance function and the consistency of their maximum likelihood estimators in the presence of discontinuities due to the nugget. We also present simulation studies to demonstrate the role of the identifiable quantities in spatial interpolation.
Parsimonious Compactly Supported Covariance Models in the Gauss Hypergeometric Class: Identifiability, Reparameterizations, and Asymptotic Properties
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez(阿道夫·伊巴涅斯大学);Università Ca’ Foscari(威尼斯卡福斯卡里大学);Universidad del Bío-Bío(比奥比奥大学);Universidad de Santiago de Chile(智利圣地亚哥大学);Universidad de Chile(智利大学)
A Robbins-Monro algorithm for non-parametric estimation of NAR process with Markov-Switching: asymptotic normality
Aix-Marseille University(艾克斯-马赛大学);Escuela de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela(委内瑞拉中央大学理学院数学系);Departamento de Matemáticas, FACYT, Universidad de Carabobo(卡拉沃博大学FACYT数学系)
Dendrograms of Mixing Measures for Softmax-Gated Gaussian Mixture of Experts: Consistency Without Model Sweeps
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam(越南胡志明市科学大学数学与计算机科学学院);Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam(越南胡志明市国家大学);Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam(越南胡志明市科学大学信息技术学院);ARC Centre of Excellence for the Mathematical Analysis of Cellular Systems(细胞系统数学分析 excellence 中心);School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane City, Australia(昆士兰科技大学数学科学学院);Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校统计与数据科学系)