Isobel, > NOT a law. There are distributions which do not > conform to this behaviour and (alas for us) the > lognormal is one of them. >
Is this the reason for transforming the data (only upto page 14). At the moment I am thinking kriging minimizes the variance of the sampling distribution as I am also reading a book on classical statistics. Is this distribution common in elements other than gold and uranium. > > The Central Limit theorem also does not apply to mixed > distributions or in cases of non-stationarity. Mind > you, neither does geostatistics................ > John Sturgul was my lecturer in mine evaluation, I think he mentioned your 1979 book in that course, but I did use it as a reference for a project I did on geostatistics. Thanks again, Regards Digby Millikan B.Eng Geolite Mining Systems U4/16 First Ave., Payneham South SA 5070 Australia. Ph: +61 8 84312974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.users.on.net/digbym -- * To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * As a general service to the users, please remember to post a summary of any useful responses to your questions. * To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with no subject and "unsubscribe ai-geostats" followed by "end" on the next line in the message body. DO NOT SEND Subscribe/Unsubscribe requests to the list * Support to the list is provided at http://www.ai-geostats.org
