“…The model simplifies for β = α to the power model of a fractional Brownian random field (Mandelbrot and Van Ness, ), for 0< β ⩽ α to a generalization of the fractional Brownian model described in the work of Schlather (), and for β <0 to the generalized Cauchy model (Gneiting, ; Gneiting and Schlather, ). It also generalizes some of the multiquadric and inverse multiquadric models used in approximation theory where α =2 and , see, for instance, Buhmann (), Wendland () or Lin and Yuan (). As , the limiting model equals a modified version of the De Wijsian model (Wackernagel, ; Matheron, ).…”