Linear combinations of space-time covariance functions and variograms

  • Authors:
  • Chunsheng Ma

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Math. & Stat., Wichita State Univ., KS, USA

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The difference or a linear combination of two space-time covariance functions (or variograms) is not necessarily a valid covariance function (or variogram). In general, there seems no simple condition that makes a linear combination permissible, unless its coefficients are non-negative. The permissibility is investigated in this paper for the linear combination of two spatial or spatio-temporal covariance functions (or variograms) isotropic in space so that we obtain flexible classes of spatial or spatio-temporal covariance functions with various properties such as long-range dependence and having different signs.