Assessing isotropy for spatial point processes

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-125

  Guan, Yongtao ^a   Sherman, Michael ^b   Calvin, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Spatial point process; Subsampling

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ASYMPTOTIC COVARIANCE MATRIX; ASYMPTOTICS; INTENSITY FUNCTIONS; LIMITING DISTRIBUTIONS; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; SUBSAMPLING; TEST STATISTICS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

DESERT; PLANT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COVARIANCE; DESERT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PLANT; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33645074126     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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