machnife,
This has been discussed. You can search the archives to read the discussion.
My best guess is that people posting regularly on AI-Geostats do not agree
that Geostatistics is a scam :-). You can also read what A. Journel had to
say about the argument in material Merks has posted on his web
Here we go again list! Welcome to the world of Jan Merks, "Mach"
Perry Collier
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icial position of the
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Here we go again list! Welcome to the world of Jan Merks, "Mach&
Hi Mach -
Jan Merks isn't the only one who has questioned the fundamentals of
geostatistics. You might also like to look at the work of Robert F. Shurtz.
Perhaps the most interesting is a slim volume published by the Mining &
Metallurgical Society of America, "A Geostatistical Monograph" (in 1
One of the foundation stones of geostatistics is the assumption that there
is a spatial semivariogram function which is invariant under spatial
translation. In many geological situations of interest (I might even say
'most'), this assumption is patently false. For example, in a typical
hydrothe
