Hi,
In addition to the list provided by Paul, I would like to add Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists, 2nd Edition Richard Webster, Margaret A. Oliver I have used it in courses for agricultural and environmental engineers and it worked well. I think that the balance between mathematical complexity and applications is quite good. Best, Virgilio El mar, 24-02-2009 a las 23:03 +0100, Paul Hiemstra escribió: > Hi Pilar, > > I think this list appropriate :). What would be a good idea is to get a > book that describes kriging, some standard books are: > > Chilès, J. & Delfiner, P. Geostatistics: Modeling Spatial Uncertainty > John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999 > Christensen, R. Plane Answers to Complex Questions: The Theory of Linear > Models Springer, New York, 1996 > Journel, A. & Huijbregts, C. Mining Geostatistics Academic Press., 1978 > > A more practical book would be the Applied Spatial Data Analysis in R, > see http://www.asdar-book.org/ for more info. > > On the web you could look at: > > http://www.kriging.com/, Owned by Isobel Clark > http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page, not sure if > there is something here on the theory of kriging. > > For a description of kriging (quite mathematical) you can also look at a > paper I wrote, you can download it from > http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul/Publications.html, it is the first one > titled Read-time automatic...etc > > This is all I could think of :). > > cheers, > Paul > > Pilar Tugores Ferra schreef: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm trying to estimate the variance of a global abundance estimation > > computed by kriging interpolation and I am stuck. > > > > One can easily retrieve the variance at each prediction location (either > > using the package gstat, geoR or automap) using expressions similar to: > > > > > >> kriging_object$krige.var > >> > > > > or >kriging_object$var1.var > > > > > > > > but, in fact, I have no idea how these variance values are computed. > > > > Could anybody tell me how is it computed or suggest some reference > > material? > > > > Could this question be inappropriate for this list in which case I would > > also apprieciate if someone could tell me where to ask it. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Pilar > > > > > > > > Mª Pilar Tugores Ferrà > > > > PhD Student > > > > Instituto Español de Oceanografía > > > > Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares > > > > Muelle de Poniente s/n > > > > 07015 Palma de Mallorca > > > > Baleares, España > > > > Telf.: (34) 971 401561 > > > > > > > > > > > > La información contenida en este e-mail y sus ficheros adjuntos es > > totalmente confidencial y no debería ser usado si no fuera usted alguno de > > los destinatarios. Si ha recibido este e-mail por error, por favor avise al > > remitente y bórrelo de su buzón o de cualquier otro medio de > > almacenamiento. This email is confidential and should not be used by > > anyone who is not the original intended recipient. If you have received > > this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete it from your > > mailbox or any other storage mechanism. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Geo mailing list > > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo