Hi all
I have a number of questions to all out there..any help/ pointers would be
appreciated.
1. What is the optimum number of samples in a block of any particular size?
What I have been able to track down so far has not really been helpful, this
includes comments like:
Samples should be
1. What is the optimum number of samples in a block
of any particular size?
Is there any way that I can work out the theoretical
number of samples in an
e.g. 30x30m block assuming some a priori information
(gold deposit, high
nugget of e.g. 1.2 e6, pop.var having the same type
of
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Hi Mark,
it seems you have already realized the paradox of sampling in
geostatistics: the more you know about the variable in question, the better
you can optimize a sampling scheme for it. It isn't easy to break out of
this paradox, and that's probably the reason that sampling has received
Unfortunately as Mark has noted, if nothing is known then one will have
to design a sampling plan using other criteriia, i.e., essentially
meaning non-statistical criteria.
Even if there were no spatial correlation and one only wanted to
estimate the average value for the block one would need
