A space-time conditional intensity model for evaluating a wildfire hazard index

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 100, Issue 469, 2005, Pages 26-35

  Peng, Roger D ^a   Schoenberg, Frederic Paik ^b   Woods, James A ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional intensity model; Model evaluation; Point process residual analysis; Random rescaling; Random thinning; Wildfire risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944365234     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214504000001763     Document Type: Article

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