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The stereology of location

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Pamela J. Davy*
Affiliation:
Macquarie University
*
Postal address: School of Economic and Financial Studies, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia.

Abstract

It is shown how to estimate centroids and other measures of location of an unknown embedded subset of a bounded specimen by random sectioning.

Type
Short Communications
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1980 

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