Quermass-interaction processes: Conditions for stability

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-342

  Kendall, W S ^a   Van Lieshout, M N M ^b   Baddeley, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Area interaction point process; Boolean model; Germ grain model; Markov point process; Minkowski functional; Quermass integral; Semi Markov random closed set; Spatial point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033140706     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1029955137     Document Type: Article

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