In this chapter, we discuss methods for formulating a suitable geostatistical model and estimating its parameters. We use the description “classical” in two different senses: firstly, as a reference to the variogram-based methods of estimation which are widely used in classical geostatistics as developed by the Fontainebleau school; secondly, within mainstream statistical methodology as a synonym for non-Bayesian. The chapter has a strong focus on the linear Gaussian model. This is partly because the Gaussian model is, from our perspective, implicit in much of classical geostatistical methodology, and partly because model-based estimation methods are most easily implemented in the linear Gaussian case. We discuss non-Bayesian estimation for generalized linear geostatistical models in Section 5.5, indicating in particular why maximum likelihood estimation is feasible in principle, but difficult to implement in practice.
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Classical parameter estimation. (2007) (pp. 99–133). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48536-2_5
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