A new method of edge correction for estimating the nearest neighbor distribution

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 353-371

  Floresroux, Ernesto M ^a   Stein, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Edge effects; Neyman Scott process; Poisson process; Spatial point processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030584611     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3758(95)00063-1     Document Type: Article

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