Kriging regression.
Calls DiceKriging::km() from package DiceKriging.
The predict type hyperparameter "type" defaults to "SK" (simple Kriging).
The additional hyperparameter nugget.stability is used to overwrite the hyperparameter nugget with nugget.stability * var(y) before training to improve the numerical stability.
We recommend a value of 1e-8.
The additional hyperparameter jitter can be set to add N(0, [jitter])-distributed noise to the data before prediction to avoid perfect interpolation. We recommend a value of 1e-12.