Laws of large numbers and nearest neighbor distances

Advances in Directional and Linear Statistics: A Festschrift for Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 189-199

  Penrose, Mathew D ^a   Yukich, J E ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84885830378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2628-9_13     Document Type: Chapter

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