Fractal analysis of surface roughness by using spatial data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-37

  Davies, Steve ^a   Hall, Peter ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Hausdorff dimension; Isotropy; Local linear estimator; Scale; Topothesy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033474256     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00160     Document Type: Article

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