Central limit theory for the number of seeds in a growth model in ℝd with inhomogeneous Poisson arrivals

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 802-814

  Chiu, S N ^a   Quine, M P ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

d; Birth growth; Brownian motion; Central limit theorem; Inhomogeneous Poisson process; Rate of convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031478723     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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