On nonparametric variance estimation for second-order statistics of inhomogeneous spatial point processes with a known parametric intensity form

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 488, 2009, Pages 1482-1491

  Guan, Yongtao ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensity reweighted stationary processes; Second order statistics; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049151068     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08541     Document Type: Article

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