Central limit theorem for a class of random measures associated with germ-grain models

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-314

  Heinrich, Lothar ^a   Molchanov, Ilya S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Germ grain model; Intrinsic volumes; M dependent random field; Mixing Boolean model; Random measure; Random set; Weak dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033141155     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1029955136     Document Type: Article

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