Estimating the K function of a point process with an application to cosmology

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1503-1532

  Stein, Michael L ^a   Quashnock, Jean M ^a,b   Loh, Ji Meng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CARTHAGE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Heavy element absorption line systems; Large scale structure of the universe; Reduced second moment function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034360416     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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