Two-step estimation for inhomogeneous spatial point processes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 685-702

  Waagepetersen, Rasmus ^a   Guan, Yongtao ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Clustering; Estimating function; Inhomogeneous point process; Intensity function; K function; Log Gaussian Cox process; Minimum contrast estimation; Neyman Scott point process

Indexed keywords

EID: 66849119080     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: 14679868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00702.x     Document Type: Article

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