Danie G. Krige
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB (Script error: No such module "IPA".; 26 August 1919Template:Snd3 March 2013) was a South African statistician and mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics and was professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Republic of South Africa.[1] The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources[2] was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron.[3]
References
External links
- Obituary in Canadian Mining Journal
- Keynote: Address: A tribute to Prof. D.G. Krige for his contributions over a period of more than half a century
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- South African statisticians
- South African geologists
- South African mining engineers
- 1919 births
- 2013 deaths
- 20th-century South African engineers
- University of the Witwatersrand alumni
- Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand
- People from Nala Local Municipality
- Geostatistics
- Recipients of the Order of the Baobab
- Surveying