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
statistics"
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During
these years I learned too much with the high level discussio
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From: "Edzer J. Pebesma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:51 am
Subject: Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Who is J. W. Merks???
> Thanks, Isobel, for the explanation. Some people never get it,
> the difference between design-based and model-bas
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
