Nonparametric estimation of the dependence of a spatial point process on spatial covariates

Statistics and its Interface

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-236

  Baddeley, Adrian ^a,b   Chang, Ya Mei ^c   Song, Yong ^a   Turner, Rolf ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Density estimation; Kernel smoothing; Local likelihood; Logistic regression; Point process intensity; Poisson point process; Relative distributions; Resource selection function; Spatial covariates; Weighted distribution; Geological prospectivity mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864378604     PISSN: 19387989     EISSN: 19387997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/SII.2012.v5.n2.a7     Document Type: Article

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