Background readings


N. Cressie: Statistics for Spatial Data. Rev. ed. Wiley 1993.
Simple kriging: pp. 105-112.
Ordinary and universal kriging: pp.119-123, 151-157.

Estimated covariance: Zimmerman, D. L. and Cressie, N (1992): Mean squared prediction error in the spatial linear model with estimated covariance parameters. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 44: 27-43.

Asymptotics: M. L. Stein: Interpolation of spatial data : some theory for kriging. Springer 1999.

Le, N.D. and Zidek, J.V. (2006): Statistics Aspects of Environmental Space - Time Process Analysis. New York: Springer.