Modern statistics for spatial point processes

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 643-684

  Møller, Jesper ^a   Waagepetersen, Rasmus P ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Conditional intensity; Cox process; Gibbs point process; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; Perfect simulation; Poisson process; Residuals; Simulation free estimation; Summary statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749004370     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2007.00569.x     Document Type: Article

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