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An essential aspect of geostatistical modeling is to establish quantitative measures of spatial variability or continuity to be used for subsequent estimation and simulation. The modeling of the spatial variability has become a standard tool of mineral resource analysts. In the last 20 years or so, the traditional experimental variogram has given way to more robust measures of variability. Details of how to calculate, interpret and model variograms or their more robust alternatives are contained in this chapter.
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Rossi, M., Deutsch, C. (2014). Spatial Variability. In: Mineral Resource Estimation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5717-5_6
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