Bayesian smoothing in the estimation of the pair potential function of Gibbs point processes

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1119-1136

  Heikkinen, Juha ^a,b   Penttinen, Antti ^a,b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian smoothing; Gibbs processes; Markov chain monte carlo methods; Marquardt algorithm; Pair potential function; Posterior mode estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041827708     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318562     Document Type: Article

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