This is a comment of 'Estimating or Choosing a Geostatistical Model' by Oliver Dubrule. His paper was presented at a conference to honour the remarkable contribution of Michel David in the inception, establishment and development of Geostatistics. …
This thesis is concerned with aspects of statistical inference for Gaussian random fields when the ultimate objective is prediction. If we wish to predict a value for a random field at unobserved locations in a bounded region it is essential to have …