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JOURNAL OF MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
Volume 167, Issue -, Pages 306-318Publisher
ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2018.05.005
Keywords
Chordal distance; Equivalence of Gaussian measures; Great circle distance; Positive definite functions; Schoenberg coefficients
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- Chilean government [FONDECYT 1160280, FONDECYT 1170290]
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity [MTM2016-78917-R]
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The equivalence of Gaussian measures is a fundamental tool to establish the asymptotic properties of both prediction and estimation of Gaussian fields under fixed domain asymptotics. The paper solves Problem 18 in the list of open problems proposed by Gneiting (2013). Specifically, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the equivalence of Gaussian measures associated to random fields defined on the d-dimensional sphere S-d, and with covariance functions depending on the great circle distance. We also focus on a comparison of our result with existing results on the equivalence of Gaussian measures for isotropic Gaussian fields on Rd+1 restricted to the sphere S-d. For such a case, the covariance function depends on the chordal distance being an approximation of the true distance between two points located on the sphere. Finally, we provide equivalence conditions for some parametric families of covariance functions depending on the great circle distance. An important implication of our results is that all the parameters indexing some families of covariance functions on spheres can be consistently estimated. A simulation study illustrates our findings in terms of implications on the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimator under fixed domain asymptotics.(C) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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