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Robust Universal Kriging

Robust Universal Kriging (RUK) is a geostatistical interpolation method that combines a spatially varying deterministic trend with a stochastic residual surface, while using robust estimators to protect the variogram and trend coefficients from the distorting influence of outlying observations.

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Sources

  1. Cressie, N. A. C. (1993). Statistics for Spatial Data (revised ed.). Wiley-Interscience, New York. ISBN: 978-0471002550
  2. Genton, M. G., & Rousseeuw, P. J. (1995). The change-of-variance curve and optimal redescending M-estimators. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 4(4), 411-432. link

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