Definition:Kriging

Definition

Kriging is a generalized least-squares technique for interpolation.

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Source of Name

This entry was named for Danie Gerhardus Krige.

Historical Note

Kriging was invented by Danie Gerhardus Krige in $1951$.

It is widely used in geostatics for problems such as establishing contour lines when given a set of spot values of a relevant random variable.

Sources

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): kriging