Limit theorems for the typical poisson-voronoi cell and the crofton cell with a large inradius

Annals of Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1625-1642

  Calka, Pierre ^a   Schreiber, Tomasz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Extreme point; Germ grain models; Large and moderate deviations; Palm distribution; Poisson Voronoi tessellation; Random convex hulls; Stochastic geometry; Typical cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244460697     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117905000000134     Document Type: Article

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