Variogram
Sign in to savethumb|Schematisation of a variogram. The points represent the measured data points (observed) and the curve represents the model function used (empirical). Range stands for the range sought, sill for the plateau value reached at maximum range, nugget for the nugget effect.
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10 sectionsContents
- Definition
- Properties
- Parameters
- Empirical variogram
- Variogram models
- Applications
- Related concepts
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Schematisation of a variogram. The points represent the measured data points (observed) and the curve represents the model function used (empirical). Range stands for the range sought, sill for the plateau value reached at maximum range, nugget for the nugget effect.
A variogram is the graphical representation of the spatial dependence between pairs of data points, commonly used in geostatistics and spatial statistics. The term is sometimes used synonymously with semivariogram, but the latter is also used by some authors to refer to half of a variogram, and should therefore be avoided. Likewise, the term semivariance can be misleading, since the values shown in a variogram are entire variances of observations at a given spatial separation (lag).