Modera techniques of trend analysis and interpolation

Abstract

This article contains a schematic exposition of t h e theoretical framework on which recent techniques of trend analysis and interpolation rest. I t is shown t h a t such techniques consist in the joint application of Analysis of the Variance and of Multivariate Distribution Analysis. The t h e o r y of Universal Kriging by G. Matheron is also discussed and reduced t o t h e above theories.