A regression technique used to interpolate data.(noun)
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Use "kriging" in a sentence
"One is thus making a distinction between the experimental variogram that is a visualisation of a possible spatial/temporal correlation and the variogram model that is further used to define the weights of the kriging function."
"As such, it may not be positive definite and hence not directly usable in kriging, without constraints or further processing."
"Mind you, the scale of interpolation or kriging of the correlation surface matters."