AI-GEOSTATS: Negative Variances reply

2001-11-14 Thread Kevin Lowe Rfn
directly they told me that the problem has been fixed in the latest release of Datamine Studio V1.1. Kevin lowe -Original Message- From: Kevin Lowe Rfn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:55 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: AI-GEOSTATS: Negative vari

AI-GEOSTATS: Negative variances

2001-11-01 Thread Kevin Lowe Rfn
Hi all I have been experimenting with various kriging methods in estimating Witwatersrand gold grades (South Africa) using Datamine software. I found that using lognormal ordinary kriging has resulted in negative variances in some blocks. My question is why does this happen and what is the signi