Aggregation of isotropic autoregressive fields

This note constitutes a corrigendum to the article of Azomahou [2009, Memory properties and aggregation of spatial autoregressive models. J. Statist. Plann. Inference, 139, 2581–2597]. The aggregation of isotropic four nearest neighbors autoregressive models on the lattice Z 2 , with random coefficient, is investigated. The spectral density of the resulting random field is studied in details for a large class of law of the AR coefficient. Depending on this law, the aggregated field may exhibit short memory or isotropic long memory.