Talk:Matérn covariance function

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Yes but why?

This (stub) article basically says what a Matérn covariance function is, and the purposes for which it is used. But for someone mathematical who has never heard of it, there's no text at all about why use Matérn covariance function rather than radial basis function, Student's T, or any of the common functions one can easily use to build a stationary kernel? What is it about Matérn that makes it good for geospatial stats? Can someone please put an answer into the article? --mcld (talk) 22:25, 13 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What is it that makes the logit link good for binary regression? Tradition, I'm afraid. -- Anonymous — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.67.26.155 (talk) 09:25, 10 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Continuity claim

The article currently says a Gaussian process with Matern covariance is floor(v-1) times differentiable. According to [1] (p 85), it is "k-times MS differentiable if and only if ν > k". Indeed, for v = 3/2, a GP is once-differentiable. Perhaps I misread something, but it seems floor(v-1) should be replaced by floor(v)$. Can anyone confirm this? Ksimek (talk) 17:20, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] C. Williams and C. Rasmussen, Gaussian processes for machine learning. MIT Press, 2006.

In its present form, the claim is that it is ceil(ν)-1 times differentiable. For ν = 3/2, this is the same as floor(ν), but it differs for integers. When ν = 1, ceil(ν)-1 = 0, but floor(ν) = 1. In this case the behavior of ceil(ν)-1 matches the statement given in Williams and Rasmussen, so we can't just replace it with floor(ν). Nejssor (talk) 03:14, 6 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"Matern kernel" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Matern kernel. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 02:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]