AI-GEOSTATS: The KWBP Test Program

[JW]

Hello Readership,   My case against geostatistics is documented on my website at http://www.geostatscam.com. Preface and Chapter 1 Introduction of Sampling and Statistics Explained can be downloaded in Adobe format. Our paper on Precision Estimates for Ore Reserves is posted under Reviewed papers. It was approved by Koch but rejected by Armstrong, David, Dowd, Froideveaux, Journel, and Sinclair, in alphabetical order, before it was praised by and published in Erzmetall. It was Stanford’s Journel who wrote to JMG’s Editor about assuming spatial dependence and about being encumbered with Fisher’s F-test. Journel’s letter to JMG’s Editor and the Editor’s letter to me are both posted under Correspondence. In those days, Srivastava extolled the miracle of Matheronian geostatistics in his inimitable way to skeptics such as Philips, Shurtz and Watson while the gurus were chanting and cheering after they turned geostatistical peer review into a blatantly biased, shamelessly self-serving sham.     Our paper shows how to verify spatial dependence between gold grades of ordered rounds in a drift by applying Fisher’s F-test. The paper also points out that the intrinsic variance can be estimated if the extraneous measurement variance is determined and subtracted from the variance of the set and the first variance term of the ordered set before Fisher’s F-test is applied. Several months before Bre-X’s boss salter vanished the F-test proved the intrinsic variance of Busang’s phantom gold to be indeterminate.   The Kolmogorov-Wieder-BLUP-Prediction ought to be applied to Bre-X’s salted boreholes on lines SEZ-41 and SEZ-49 and to three lines of kriged boreholes between those lines of salted boreholes. Of course, it makes sense to apply this KWBP test to Bre-X’s bonanza borehole, which is also posted under http://ai-geostats.jrc.it/documents/JW_Merks/. If necessary, I can provide plenty of bogus assays for the original and duplicate test portions of crushed and salted core samples from many more boreholes to properly calibrate the KWBP methodology. This experiment would be of particular interest to geostatistical neophytes who want to do more with fewer data. I look forward to the results of this test program with anticipation. I encourage readers to print out Readme and read it! Some students may want to read retro-reviews of the first three textbooks on geostatistics, which are posted under Book reviews on my own website.            Kind regards, Jan W Merks