Asymptotic properties of estimators for the volume fractions of jointly stationary random sets

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 388-406

  Bohm S ^a   Schmidt, V ^a   Heinrich, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Boolean model; Consistency; Covariance matrix; Estimation; Frequency of coverage; Stationary vector field

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944260050     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2004.00267.x     Document Type: Article

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