Estimation of fractal dimension for a class of non-gaussian stationary processes and fields

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1222-1260

  Chan, Grace ^a   Wood, Andrew T A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gaussian random measure; Hermite polynomial; Increments; Stationary random field; Variogram; Wiener Ito integral

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844341178     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000346     Document Type: Article

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