Title: J. W. Merks is...DA MAN
Maybe Jan should join the list so he can tell us all that "Geostatistics is a scientific fraud!" EVERY DAY!
Yippee!
Thanks all for a very interesting discussion on the history of JW Merks, human nature and personalities - nourishing stuff...and it was such an
Hello people
Thank you for your swift responses, especially on the
weekend. This turned out to be a long reply, so feel
free to read the next paragraph and skip on to the
last one.
I think we should be fair to Jan Merks. He got a bee
in his bonnet over an issue which is less than well
explained i
AI Geostats Subscribers, Isobel Clark(e),
It seems that Merks is his own worst enemy. As a matter of interest, when
one is a member of the geostatistics church - ie member of a known
geostatistical union, it is easy to criticise Merks for both his opacity and
his criticism. Where there is smoke
Dear
List:
"AI-GEOSTATS is mainly a mailing list which acts as a forum for the
dissemination and discussion of all aspects of spatial
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During
these years I learned too much with the high level discussio
Hi,
I think this man just wants to get more attention by making some noise.
Geostatistics is the great contribution of geoscientists outside the
mainstream of statistics to the science. I also ever met a reviewer.
The guy never agree that parameters should estimated from correlated
data.
At
Thanks, Isobel, for the explanation. Some people never get it,
the difference between design-based and model-based methods.
From the other side it is also true that there are
geostatisticians, even famous ones, who keep arguing that design-
based methods (methods that essentially assume independent
Jan Merks is an expert in sampling theory and works as
an independent consultant out of Vancouver, Canada. He
has a web site which I don't have to hand, where all
of these opinions are repeated and amplified.
Jan first starting publishing anti-geostatistics
articles in 1991 or 1992 and the article
Dear Perry,
Please visit this website:
http://www.geostatscam.com/index.htm
You might know him better... :-)
Regards,
Nur Heriawan
Dept. of Mining Eng.
Institut Teknologi Bandung
Jl. Ganesha 10 Bandung 40132
INDONESIA
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> Hi List
>
> I was searching
Hi
List
I was searching
for geostats books on www.amazon.com and
came across a reviewer by the name of J. W. Merks who has trashed every
single geostatistical publication available. This is what he had to say
about Geostatistics : Modeling
Spatial Uncertainty (Wiley Series in Probabilit
