Contents
Foreword by Abdel H. El-Shaarawi xi
Foreword by Hao Zhang xiii
List of figures xv
List of tables xxi
About the companion website xxiii
1 From classical statistics to geostatistics 1
1.1 Not all spatial data are geostatistical data 1
1.2 The limits of classical statistics 5
1.3 A real geostatistical dataset: data on carbon monoxide in Madrid, Spain 7
2 Geostatistics: preliminaries 10