Increment-based estimators of fractal dimension for two-dimensional surface data

Statistica Sinica

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 343-376

  Chan, Grace ^a   Wood, Andrew T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian random field; Generalised least squares; Self similarity; Stationary

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034389477     PISSN: 10170405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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