Validity of the expected Euler characteristic heuristic

Annals of Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1362-1396

  Taylor, Jonathan ^a   Takemura, Akimichi ^a,b   Adler, Robert J ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Euler characteristic; Excursions; Gaussian processes; Manifolds; Point processes; Random fields; Volume of tubes

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244455084     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117905000000099     Document Type: Article

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