Bayesian inference for a random tessellation process

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 502-507

  Blackwell, P G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal territories; Cox process; Inhomogeneous Poisson process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Metropolis Hastings algorithm; Polygon decomposition; Tessellation reconstruction; Thiessen polygon; Voronoi tessellation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES;

ANIMAL TERRITORY; COX PROCESS; INHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHM; POLYGON DECOMPOSITION; TESSELLATION RECONSTRUCTION; THIESSEN POLYGON; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICS;

EID: 0035024175     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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