Richard Webster, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden Dr Webster is the Senior Research Fellow at Rothamsted Research. Margaret A. Oliver, Visiting Professor, Department of Soil Science, University of ReadingProfessor Oliver has taught geostatistics, applied statistics, multivariate analysis and pedology to undergraduates and postgraduates. She also established a short geostatistics course while at the University of Birmingham, which has now been taught in several countries (e.g. Sweden, USA and Mexico). She is the author of over 70 papers and two co-authored books.

• Preface 1 Introduction2 Basic Statistics3 Prediction and Interpolation4 Characterizing Spatial Processes: The Covariance and Variogram5 Modelling the Variogram6 Reliability of the Experimental Variogram and Nested Sampling7 Spectral Analysis8 Local Estimation or Prediction: Kriging9 Kriging in the Presence of Trend and Factorial Kriging10 Cross-Correlation, Coregionalization and Cokriging11 Disjunctive Kriging12 Stochastic Simulation (new file)Appendix AAppendix BReferencesIndex

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