Quermass-interaction processes: conditions for stability

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 315-342

  Kendall, W S ^a   Van Lieshout, M N M ^b   Baddeley, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SET THEORY; STATISTICS;

AREA INTERACTION POINT PROCESS; GERM GRAIN MODELS; MARKOV POINT PROCESS; MINKOWSKI FUNCTIONAL; QUERMASS INTEGRAL; SEMI MARKOV RANDOM CLOSED SET; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS;

MARKOV PROCESSES;

EID: 85037970370     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009137     Document Type: Article

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