Abstract
The relative variogram has been employed as a tool for correcting a simple kind of nonstationarity, namely that in which local variance is proportional to local mean squared. In the past, this has been linked in a vague way to the lognormal distribution, although if {Zt; t ∈ D}is strongly stationary and normal over a domain D,then clearly {exp (Zt); t ∈ D}will stillbe stationary, but lognormal. The appropriate link is made in this article through a universal transformation principle. More general situations are considered, leading to the use of a “scaled variogram.”
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Cressie, N. When are relative variograms useful in geostatistics?. Mathematical Geology 17, 693–702 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01031611
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