C&ENVENG 7064 - Non-Stationarity, Selection & Recoverability
North Terrace Campus - Winter - 2015
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Course Code C&ENVENG 7064 Course Non-Stationarity, Selection & Recoverability Coordinating Unit School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Eng Term Winter Level Postgraduate Coursework Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Block teaching, 9-5, Mon-Fri, one week only Available for Study Abroad and Exchange N Assumed Knowledge C&ENVENG 7043, C&ENVENG 7056 & STATS 7061 Restrictions Available to M Geostatistic students only Course Description There are two major components in this course.
(1) Non-stationarity: Introduction to the concept of drift (trend) by way of geological examples. Definitions of the various forms of stationarity (in a statistical sense). Simple ways of dealing with non-stationary variables. Detailed case study to illustrate the assessment and quantification of non-stationarity. Universal kriging and universal kriging variances. Intrinsic Random Functions and generalised covariances. Statistical tests for constant mean of a spatial variable - the D-statistic and the global D-statistic.
(2) Selection & Recoverability: This component is essentially a study of scale effects. The applications are to mineral resources and environmental contamination (ground) but, depending on the chosen specialisations, can be expanded to all other applications. The emphasis is on conceptual approaches to simple applications leading to simple spatial statistical methods to predict the effects of changing scale - e.g. predicting the distributions of grade values of large blocks from the grade values of sample volumes. The information effect and the support effect - concepts, quantification and practical consequences. Parametric formulation of the change of scale. The affine correction. Local and global corrections for scale effects.Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Peter Dowd
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