Li, Hongfei; Calder, Catherine A.; Cressie, Noel - In: Journal of Multivariate Analysis 105 (2012) 1, pp. 68-84
We consider one-step estimation of parameters that represent the strength of spatial dependence in a geostatistical or lattice spatial model. While the maximum likelihood estimators (MLE) of spatial dependence parameters are known to have various desirable properties, they do not have...