Bayesian analysis of deformed tessellation models

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 4-26

  Blackwell, Paul G ^a   Møller, Jesper ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Deformed template; Harris recurrence; Image analysis; Inhomogeneous poisson process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Random tessellation; Reversible jump; Uniform ergodicity; Voronoi tessellation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HARRIS RECURRENCE; RANDOM TESSELLATION; TESSELLATION MODELS; VORONOI TESSELLATION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 0037359307     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1046366096     Document Type: Article

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