Set-Valued Means of Random Particles

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 111-121

  Stoyan, Dietrich ^a,c   Molchanov, Ilya S ^a,b,d,e,f  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c International Society for Stereology   (Germany)

^d TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FOOD TECHNOLOGIES   (Ukraine)

^f CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Estimation; Expectation; Figure; Orbit space; Particle; Random set; Shape; Support function; Variance

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); POWDERS; SAND; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ORBIT SPACE; POWDER PARTICLES; SAND GRAINS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 0031096162     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008289104136     Document Type: Article

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