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This paper is largely an exposition of the work of the French geostatistian G. Matheron and his school in English and at a simpler mathematical level. The probability theory on which it is based is essentially all contained in the references cited, most of which will be unfamiliar to mathematical geologists. The important method of ‘universal kriging” is explained intuitively. The genuine statistical problems, which have yet to be overcome, are pointed out.
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Research supported by the Office of Naval Research under contract NONR 4010(09) awarded to the Department of Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University. This paper in whole or in part may be reproduced for any purpose of the United States Government.
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Watson, G.S. Trend-surface analysis. Mathematical Geology 3, 215–226 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02045792
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