[R-sig-Geo] variogram question

[G. Allegri]

> At this stage I do
> this by computing the sums of squares between the model and the sample
> variogram and choose the one with the smallest SS. This is a rather crude
> way of selecting between the models.

Thanks Paul for automap. I'm planning to try it in the next occasion.
What are the major drawbacks in using simply SS in model selection? I
mean, I know there are lot of more sofiticated methods, but is this
good for some situation, or is in general a poor selection method?

thanks,
Giovanni