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The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Apr., 2006), pp. 400-409 (10 pages) The classic Kriging variance formula is widely used in geostatistics and in the design and analysis ...

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical analysis tool that separates total variability found within a data set into two components: random and systematic factors.