Spatial point processes in astronomy

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 311-326

  Babu, Gutti Jogesh ^a   Feigelson, Eric D ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Borel distribution; CCD detectors; Censoring; Galaxies; Gamma ray bursters; Gravitational clustering; Infinitely divisible distributions; IRAS; Isotropic process; k mean clustering; Malmquist bias; n point correlation function; Point spread function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030584584     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00060-7     Document Type: Article

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