Hello, I was wondering if someone can tell me about statistical parameters, why standard deviation and variance is used as opposed to mean absolute deviation from the mean. It rings a bell that intergral calculus has something to do with it e.g. related to formulea for a normal distribution . M.David states the variogram uses the squared term as it makes calculations easier, as it would being related to statistical parameters such as variance, covariance similarly, A.Journel informed me, as Donald exaplained Kriging is Least Squared Error.
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