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A few theses developed in G. Matheron’s book “Estimating and Choosing” are commented. They are the concern, firstly of the notion of a range, or typical size of the phenomenon under study, secondly of the role of the infinity (why a variogram rather a covariance, since data sets are always finite?), and thirdly of the sense of stationarity (is it a probabilistic notion, or just a change of scale?)
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Matheron, G. (1989). Estimating and choosing: An essay on probability in practice. Berlin: Springer.
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Serra, J. (2014). Revisiting “Estimating and Choosing”. In: Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Guardiola-Albert, C., Heredia, J., Moreno-Merino, L., Durán, J., Vargas-Guzmán, J. (eds) Mathematics of Planet Earth. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_14
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