Approximate lognormality of the sample semi-variogram under a gaussian process
作者:
A.J Baczkowski,
K.V Mardia,
期刊:
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
(Taylor Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 2
页码: 571-585
ISSN:0361-0918
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1080/03610918708812605
出版商: Marcel Dekker, Inc.
关键词: Monte.carlo simulation;semi-variogram;sampling distribution;geostatistics
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The semi-variogram is widely used in geostatistical data analyses. It is estimatedby the sample semi-variogram. Although some theoretical work has been done on its sampling distribution for a Gaussian process these results are not of immediate practical usage because of the problems induced by the presence of spatial inter-correlations. In this paper various simulation studies are reported which give overwhelming evidence that a logarithmic transformation of the semi-variogram gives approximate normality for moderately large sample sizes. This result is theoretically expected under certain conditions. A robust estimator of the semi-variogram was also studied using the simulations.
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