Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 52, No. 4 (2003), pp. 487-498 (12 pages) Rainfall data are often collected at coarser spatial scales than required for ...
This article compares three binary Markov random fields (MRFs) which are popular Bayesian priors for spatial smoothing. These are the Ising prior and two priors based on latent Gaussian MRFs. Concern ...