What the h--- (this is more fun than jello wrestling):
Steve Zoraster wrote:
> 1) What manager in the mining or petroleum industry who has graduated
> from college hasn't taken a serious statistics course, including covariances
> and correlations?
Are we talking planet earth? As one that teaches stat at all levels (calculus,
non-calc, simulation, etc.) including graduate engineers:
Most do not remember much from stat - even the basics. Covariances are way above what
most will remember - especially managers not dealing with this on an ongoing basis.
For stat geeks (I include myself in that
category), covariances may be OK, but I like that old down-home feeling one gets with
a nice semi-variogram plot with the actual data scattered around it. Sends nice
chills down the spine. A good bottle of wine,
your favorite partner, and some semi-variogram modeling - it just doesn't get any
better than that...
> 2) Surely when starting from scratch, educating someone about
> geostatistics is more intuitive using covariances? (Just my opinion so far,
> speaking as a mathematician who remembers teaching basic college level
> statistics to nursing majors, education majors, sociology majors, etc. And
> even succeeding occasionally.)
Maybe for your crowd but not for all. But whatever works is fine with moi.
> Steven Zoraster
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