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The objectives of this study are using geostatistics and traditional statistical methods to predict the spatial dis- tribution of heavy metal in contaminated soils and to search for the most efficient sampling strategy for contaminated site characterization.Two study sites located at Tou-Yuan County were selected. The spatial distribution of soil Cd, Pb and Zn concentrations were predicted by kriging in this study. The results showed that the spatial distribution of those heavy metal concentrations estimated by ordinary kriging varied with the sampling numbers used. However, the accuracy of prediction is mainly dependent on whether the outlier data are sampled. There is no significant difference between the estimated values using spherical and exponential semivariogram model. But the estimated values using gaussian model were higher than those using spherical and exponential models at the location having high concentrations of heavy metal. The natural logtransformation of data of this study resulted in largees timated biasedness. The topsoil Cd and Pb concentrations insite A predicted by indicator kriging were more accurate than those predicted by natural log-transformed ordinary kriging. The accuracy of topsoil Cd and Pb concentrations'' prediction can be improved by the assistance of other available Cd, Pb,and Zn concentrations of topsoils or subsoils using Q-mode factor approximation. The relationship between the probability of obtaining outliers and relative sampling cost is developed and proposed as a guideline for searching the most efficient sampling strategy for characterization of spatial distribution of pollutants in contaminated soils.
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