Teaching Aid: Minimum/Maximum Autocorrelation Factors for Joint Simulation of Attributes

Mathematical Geosciences

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 469-504

  Rondon, Oscar ^a  

^a Snowden Mining Industry Consultants   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coregionalization; Decorrelation; Joint conditional simulation; Multivariate grade risk; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FACTOR; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; COREGIONALIZATION; COSIMULATION; DECORRELATIONS; JOINT SIMULATION; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TEACHING AIDS;

MINERAL RESOURCES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AUTOCORRELATION;

AUTOCORRELATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860916344     PISSN: 18748961     EISSN: 18748953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-011-9329-6     Document Type: Article

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