Overview
Noel Cressie is a statistician (Distinguished Professor, University of Wollongong; formerly Iowa State and Ohio State), one of the foremost authorities on spatial and spatio-temporal statistics and author of the standard reference Statistics for Spatial Data.
Key Contributions / Features
- Spatial modeling of regional data (Cressie-Chan 1989): the Markov-random-field / auto-Gaussian analysis of the North Carolina SIDS data, separating large-scale and small-scale variation (Conditional Autoregressive Model).
- Foundational work on geostatistics (variograms, kriging), lattice/areal models, and spatio-temporal hierarchical modeling; author of Statistics for Spatial Data and Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data (with Wikle).
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