Applied geostatistics /

This book describes applied geostatistical methods at an introductory level. It is an easy-to-read book, aimed at undergraduates and 'practitioners' with some knowledge of calculus and elementary statistics. This book could be useful to non statisticians who are taking a first look at geos...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Isaaks, Edward H.
Other Authors:	Srivastava, R. Mohan
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Subjects:	Geology > Statistical methods. Geology > Statistical mathematics Geologie. Statistische methoden. Géologie > Méthodes statistiques.
Online Access:	Table of contents only Publisher description Contributor biographical information

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Univariate description
Bivariate description
Spatial description
The exhaustive data set
The sample data set
The sample data set : spatial continuity
Estimation
Random function models
Global estimation
Point estimation
Ordinary kriging
Block kriging
Search strategy
Cross validation
Modeling the sample variogram
Cokriging
Estimating a distribution
Change of support
Assessing uncertainty
Final throughts
Bibliography
Appendix A : the Walker Lake data sets
Appendix B : continuous random variables
Index.