An explicit expression for the distribution of the number of sides of the typical Poisson-Voronoi cell

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 863-870

  Calka, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Palm distribution; Poisson Voronoi tessellation; Stochastic geometry; Typical cell

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; THEOREM PROVING;

PALM DISTRIBUTION; TYPICAL CELLS; VORONOI TESSELLATION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0141607465     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1067436323     Document Type: Article

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