Joint estimators for the specific intrinsic volumes of stationary random sets

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 959-981

  Schmidt, Volker ^a   Spodarev, Evgueni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Consistency; Euler Poincar characteristic; Nonparametric estimation; Random closed set; Specific surface area; Stationary random field; Stochastic geometry; Unbiasedness; Volume fraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING; VECTORS; VOLUME FRACTION;

ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; EULER-POINCARE CHARACTERISTIC; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION; RANDOM CLOSED SET; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; STATIONARY RANDOM FIELD; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 17744399211     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spa.2004.12.007     Document Type: Article

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