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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">219_OK</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.201801_16(1).0003</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Generalized Asymmetric Laplace random fields: Existence and Application</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Saber</surname>
            <given-names>M. M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_000"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">Department of Statistics, Higher Education Center of Eghlid, Eghlid, Iran</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Nematollahi</surname>
            <given-names>A. R.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">Department of Statistics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Mohammadzadeh</surname>
            <given-names>M.</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">Department of Statistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>51</fpage>
      <lpage>68</lpage>
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        <p>Some specific random fields have been studied by many researchers whose finite-dimensional marginal distributions are multivariate closed skewnormal or multivariate extended skew-t, in time and spatial domains. In this paper, a necessary and sufficient condition is provided for applicability of such random field in spatial interpolation, based on the marginal distributions. Two deficiencies of the random fields generated by some well-known multivariate distributions are pointed out and in contrast, a suitable skew and heavy tailed random field is proposed. The efficiency of the proposed random field is illustrated through the interpolation of a real data.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Random field</kwd>
        <kwd>Spatial autocorrelation</kwd>
        <kwd>Multivariate Skew distributions</kwd>
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