- sounds a lot like course-work to me... addressed to whom? On 15 Jul 2002 03:38:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashraf A Ahmed) wrote:
> Dear Sir, > > I have a statistical problem and would appreciate your guidance. > > I am doing my research in Civil and Environmental Engineering. > I have a field site 155 ft length and 60 ft wide, where there are 4 > boreholes. I know the soil properties only at these boreholes. I > need to generate these properties for the whole site. > I have read that many interpolation options like Kriging, natural > neighbor or inverse distance weighted can do that. With merely four points, you potentially have much more OUTSIDE extrapolation instead of INSIDE interpolation. Are those estimators equally robust that way? > But I don't know which method of those mentioned above gives me > the best results. I would appreciate very much your hint in that. If one method was *uniformly best*, would you be likely to read much about the others? Of course, you can't trust my comments here; I hardly know anything about this subject, at all. > Also, is there any program which could be downloaded free from > your website or any other website that can do that?. - whose website? -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
