Estimation of non-ergodic variograms and their sampling variance by design-based sampling strategies |
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Authors: | D. J. Brus and J. J. de Gruijter |
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Affiliation: | (1) Soil and Water Research, DLO Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, P.O. Box 125, 6700 AC Wageningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Design-based sampling strategies based on classical sampling theory offer unprecedented potentials for estimation of non-ergodic variograms. Unbiased and uncorrelated estimates of the semivariance at the selected lags and of its sampling variance can be simply obtained. These estimates are robust against deviations from an assumed spatial autocorrelation model. The same holds for the variogram model parameters and their sampling (co)variances. Moreover, an objective measure for lack of fit of the fitted model can simply be derived. The estimators for two basic sampling designs, simple random sampling and stratified simple random sampling of pairs of points, are presented. The first has been tested in real world for estimating the non-ergodic variograms of three soil properties. The parameters of variogram models and their sampling (co)variances were estimated with 72 pairs of points distributed over six lags. |
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Keywords: | statistical dependence design-unbiasedness lack of fit confidence interval dispersion matrix |
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