Testing randomness of spatial point patterns with the ripley statistic

ESAIM - Probability and Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2013, Pages 767-788

  Lang, Gabriel ^a   Marcon, Eric ^b  

^a AgroParisTech   (France)

^b Campus Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Goodness of fit test; H ffding decomposition; K function; Point pattern; Poisson process; U statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996129994     PISSN: 12928100     EISSN: 12623318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ps/2012027     Document Type: Article

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