An estimating function approach to inference for inhomogeneous Neyman-Scott processes

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 252-258

  Waagepetersen, Rasmus Plenge ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Clustering; Estimating function; Infill asymptotics; Inhomogeneous point process; Neyman Scott point process

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; ASYMPTOTICS; CLUSTERINGS; ESTIMATING FUNCTIONS; INFILL ASYMPTOTIC; INHOMOGENEOUS POINT PROCESS; NEYMAN-SCOTT POINT PROCESS; PARAMETERS ESTIMATES; POINT PROCESS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RAINFOREST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

EID: 34247213900     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00667.x     Document Type: Article

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