Nearest-neighbor clutter removal for estimating features in spatial point processes

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 577-584

  Byers, Simon ^a   Raftery, Adrian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breakdown point; Edge effects; EM algorithm; Image analysis; Minefield; Mixture model; Robust covariance estimation; Seismic fault

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032375671     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473711     Document Type: Article

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