GSLIB: Geostatistical Software Library and User's Guide pdf

È professore presso la School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering presso l'Università di Alberta, dove dirige il Center for Computational Geostatistics. Insegna e conduce ricerche su modi migliori per modellare l'eterogeneità e l'incertezza nei giacimenti minerari e nei giacimenti di petrolio. La sua storia lavorativa comprende anche tre anni con Exxon Production Research Company e tre anni di esperienza con Placer Dome Inc. Il Dr. Deutsch ha pubblicato otto libri e oltre trecento articoli di ricerca.

GSLIB: Geostatistical Software Library and User's Guide pdf da Clayton Deutsch

This is definitely not a book for the faint-of-mathematical-heart. As the title indicates, this is a user's manual for the GSLIB software (which is included on CD-ROM), and it includes discussions of all the supporting statistical mathematics. This makes the book invaluable to the user who is already well-grounded in statistics, and difficult to follow for the rest. There are very few lifelines to pull non-statisticians out of the jargon mire.

Nevertheless, if you're well-versed (and you probably are if you're considering purchasing this software), this is one heck of a powerful set of tools. The software includes a Kriging smorgasbord, simulation, variography, display tools, and is self-contained with few exceptions. The software is platform-independent, requiring only a Fortran compiler. All routines are written for Fortran77, and are uncompiled. I found the software user manual to be useful, well thought out, and complete.