Maxima of discretely sampled random fields, with an application to 'bubbles'

Biometrika

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-18

  Taylor, J E ^a   Worsley, K J ^b   Gosselin, F ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bonferroni; Bubbles; Euler characteristic; Random field

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947133769     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asm004     Document Type: Article

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