Poisson limits for pairwise and area interaction point processes

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-85

  Jammalamadaka, S Rao ^a   Penrose, Mathew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Area interaction process; Gibbs distribution; Limit laws; Point process; Spatial statistics; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345753537     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009770     Document Type: Article

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