A central limit theorem with applications to percolation, epidemics and boolean models

Annals of Probability

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1515-1546

  Penrose, Mathew D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boolean model; Central limit theorem; Geometric probability; Martingale; Percolation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035470870     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1015345760     Document Type: Article

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