New statistical methods for detecting point alignments

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 659-666

  Hammer, Ø ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alignment detection; Directional statistics; Point patterns; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALIGNMENT DETECTION; DETECTING POINTS; DIRECTIONAL STATISTICS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; FALSE POSITIVES; GEOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NON-STATIONARY POINTS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDES; POINT PATTERNS; REAL EXAMPLES; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCES; SYNTHETIC DATA SETS; TYPE-I ERRORS;

ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 60249103586     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.03.012     Document Type: Article

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