Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB (Afrikaans: [ˈdɑːni ˈkriχə]; 26 August 1919 – 3 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.
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