Characterization results and Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms including exact simulation for some spatial point processes

Bernoulli

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 641-658

  Häggström, Olle ^a   Van Lieshout, Marie Colette N M ^a   Møller, Jesper ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Area interaction process; Continuum random cluster model; Exact simulation; Gibbs sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Nearest neighbour Markov point process; Papangelou conditional intensity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84988298069     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318694     Document Type: Article

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