Moments of the sampled space-time autocovariance and autocorrelation function
样本时空自协方差与自相关函数的矩
Pfeifer & Deutsch (1981) have derived expressions for the means and variances of the sampled autocovariances and autocorrelations, in the case of a white-noise space-time process. This note shows how their work can be extended to general space-time autoregressive moving average processes. The results are useful for testing the significance of observed space-time autocorrelations, given a hypothesized space-time process.