Hi all, I just happened to notice that the first result from a search for "geostatistics" in Google is the Wikipedia article . If you go have a look, you will notice that this article is in a terrible shape and completely lacks relevant information. I do not wish to open "the" can of worms, but you may not be surprised to learn that Jan Merks has done his share to make the page the way it is. I was thinking that if a few of us on the mailing list make a small effort, we could easily make that page much more informative, while remaining objective, in a very short period of time. In light of the recent discussion on geostatistical software, an expended list of software could be useful also.
Perhaps unfortunately, Wikipedia has become for many the main source of quick information on various aspects of statistics (as well as pretty much anything else). I think other geostatistics-related pages (e.g. "variogram" and "kriging") are in a much better shape, although Merks has also left his trace there too. Again, I don't want to open a can of worms... sorry if I do. I'll try to spend a bit of time on this in the next few days or weeks. Please feel free to help me if you have the desire and time to do so, particularly if you have some ready-to-use summaries about the history or the basics of geostatistics. Cheers, Guillaume Larocque, PhD Research Associate, Macdonald Campus of McGill University + + To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] + To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@ jrc.ec.europa.eu with no subject and "unsubscribe ai-geostats" in the message body. DO NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list + As a general service to list users, please remember to post a summary of any useful responses to your questions. + Support to the forum can be found at http://www.ai-geostats.org/
