Species distribution modeling: a statistical review with focus in spatio-temporal issues

J Martínez-Minaya, M Cameletti, D Conesa… - … research and risk …, 2018 - Springer
The use of complex statistical models has recently increased substantially in the context of
species distribution behavior. This complexity has made the inferential and predictive …

[HTML][HTML] Non-parametric machine learning methods for interpolation of spatially varying non-stationary and non-Gaussian geotechnical properties

C Shi, Y Wang - Geoscience Frontiers, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial interpolation has been frequently encountered in earth sciences and engineering. A
reasonable appraisal of subsurface heterogeneity plays a significant role in planning, risk …

Posterior inference for sparse hierarchical non-stationary models

K Monterrubio-Gómez, L Roininen, S Wade… - … Statistics & Data …, 2020 - Elsevier
Gaussian processes are valuable tools for non-parametric modelling, where typically an
assumption of stationarity is employed. While removing this assumption can improve …

[HTML][HTML] A probabilistic gridded product for daily precipitation extremes over the United States

MD Risser, CJ Paciorek, MF Wehner, TA O'Brien… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
Gridded data products, for example interpolated daily measurements of precipitation from
weather stations, are commonly used as a convenient substitute for direct observations …

Nearest-neighbor neural networks for geostatistics

H Wang, Y Guan, B Reich - 2019 international conference on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Kriging is the predominant method used for spatial prediction, but relies on the assumption
that predictions are linear combinations of the observations. Kriging often also relies on …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying the influence of natural climate variability on in situ measurements of seasonal total and extreme daily precipitation

MD Risser, MF Wehner, JP O'Brien, CM Patricola… - Climate Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
While various studies explore the relationship between individual sources of climate
variability and extreme precipitation, there is a need for improved understanding of how …

Gaussian process modeling of heterogeneity and discontinuities using Voronoi tessellations

CA Pope, JP Gosling, S Barber, JS Johnson… - …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Many methods for modeling functions over high-dimensional spaces assume global
smoothness properties; such assumptions are often violated in practice. We introduce a …

Scalable Bayesian transport maps for high-dimensional non-Gaussian spatial fields

M Katzfuss, F Schäfer - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
A multivariate distribution can be described by a triangular transport map from the target
distribution to a simple reference distribution. We propose Bayesian nonparametric …

Valid model-free spatial prediction

H Mao, R Martin, BJ Reich - Journal of the American Statistical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Predicting the response at an unobserved location is a fundamental problem in spatial
statistics. Given the difficulty in modeling spatial dependence, especially in nonstationary …

Modeling spatial data using local likelihood estimation and a Matérn to spatial autoregressive translation

A Wiens, D Nychka, W Kleiber - Environmetrics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Modeling data with nonstationary covariance structure is important to represent
heterogeneity in geophysical and other environmental spatial processes. In this work, we …