Testing local independence between two point processes

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 508-517

  Allard, Denis ^a   Brix, Anders ^b   Chadœuf, Joël ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Independence test; Inhomogeneous point processes; Local test; Monte Carlo; Nonstationarity; Rotations; Spatial pattern; Tiger bush

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENCE TESTS; INHOMOGENEOUS POINT PROCESS; LOCAL TESTS; MONTE CARLO; NON-STATIONARITIES; POINT PROCESS; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; TIGER BUSH; TWO-POINT;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; ROTATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EID: 0035007505     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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