Random sets: Models and statistics

International Statistical Review

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-27

  Stoyan, Dietrich ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aumann mean; Boolean model; Contact distribution function; Covariance; Excursion set; Fibre process; Particle; Point process; Poisson hard core process; Poisson process; Random closed set; Random compact set; Sphere packing; Stienen model; Voronoi tessellation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032372934     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.1998.tb00403.x     Document Type: Article

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