Leonhard (University of Munich, Munich, Germany) Held & Havard (NTNU, Trondheim, Norway) Rue 
Gaussian Markov Random Fields [PDF ebook] 
Theory and Applications

Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) models are most widely used in spatial statistics – a very active area of research in which few up-to-date reference works are available. This is the first book on the subject that provides a unified framework of GMRFs with particular emphasis on the computational aspects. This book includes extensive case-studie