Testing uniformity of a spatial point pattern

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 378-398

  Ho, Lai Ping ^a   Chiu, Sung Nok ^a  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Complete spatial randomness; Discrepancy; Quasi Monte Carlo method; Spatial point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250765698     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186007X208966     Document Type: Article

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