Practical simulation and estimation for Gibbs Delaunay-Voronoi tessellations with geometric hardcore interaction

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 498-519

  Dereudre, D ^a   Lavancier, F ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Gibbs point process; Pseudo likelihood estimator; Random tessellations; Spatial statistics; Stochastic geometry

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

GIBBS POINT PROCESS; PSEUDO-LIKELIHOOD; RANDOM TESSELLATIONS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC GEOMETRY;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 77958070697     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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