Danie Gerhardus Krige GCOB (; 26 August 19193 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. The technique of kriging is named after him. Krige's empirical work to evaluate mineral resources was formalised in the 1960s by French engineer Georges Matheron.
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External links Obituary in Canadian Mining Journal Keynote: Address: A tribute to Prof. D.G. Krige for his contributions over a period of more than half a century