Perfect simulation and inference for point processes given noisy observations

Computational Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 317-336

  Lund, Jens ^a   Thönnes, Elke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominated coupling from the past; Marked point process; Noisy point process; Spatial birth and death process

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942556510     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02892063     Document Type: Article

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