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A limit theorem for spatial point processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Steven P. Ellis*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*
Present address: Department of Statistics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA.

Abstract

Spatial point processes are considered whose points are subjected to certain classes of affine transformations indexed by some variable, T. Under some hypotheses, for large T integrals with respect to such a point process behave approximately as if the process were Poisson. Under stronger hypotheses, the transformed process converges as a process to a Poisson process. The result gives the asymptotic distribution of certain density estimates.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1986 

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Footnotes

This work was partially supported by United States National Science Foundation Grants MCS 75-10376, PFR 79-01642, MCS 82-01732, and MCS 82-02122

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