The Candy model: Properties and inference

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-206

  Van Lieshout, M N M ^a   Stoica, R S ^a  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candy model; Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation; Markov marked point process; Maximum likelihood estimation; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038578147     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9574.00227     Document Type: Article

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