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This short note establishes the equivalence between trend surface analysis with polynomials of orderk and IRF-k (intrinsic random function of orderk) kriging with a nugget effect covariance model.
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Marcotte, D., David, M. Trend surface analysis as a special case of IRF-k kriging. Math Geol 20, 821–824 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00890194
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