[SciPy-User] kriging module

[Robert Kern]

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 16:44, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:40:03PM +0100, Christoph Deil wrote:
>> > Hopefully this would open the door to having Gaussian process (or
>> > Kriging) available to the community in a standard package.
>
>> I don't know anything about Gaussian processes, but I had seen them in
>> PyMC and thought I'd mention it.
>
> Sorry, I should have said 'Gaussian process regression', which is the
> full name, and is an equivalent to Kriging. Gaussian processes in
> themself are a very large class of probabilistic models.
> AFAICT, PyMC does not have any Gaussian process regression, and it does
> seem a bit outside its scope.

I'm pretty sure it does. See section 1.4 "Nonparametric regression"
and 2.4 "Geostatistical example" in the GP User's Guide:

  http://pymc.googlecode.com/files/GPUserGuide.pdf

-- 
Robert Kern

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enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
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