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On Estimation of the Intensity Function of a Point Process

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  • Marie-Colette N. M. Lieshout

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In this paper we review techniques for estimating the intensity function of a spatial point process. We present a unified framework of mass preserving general weight function estimators that encompasses both kernel and tessellation based estimators. We give explicit expressions for the first two moments of these estimators in terms of their product densities, and pay special attention to Poisson processes.

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  • Marie-Colette N. M. Lieshout, 2012. "On Estimation of the Intensity Function of a Point Process," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 14(3), pages 567-578, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:metcap:v:14:y:2012:i:3:d:10.1007_s11009-011-9244-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s11009-011-9244-9
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    1. M. N. M. Lieshout, 2020. "Infill Asymptotics and Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Estimators of Spatial Intensity Functions," Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 995-1008, September.
    2. O. Cronie & M. N. M. Van Lieshout, 2015. "A J -function for Inhomogeneous Spatio-temporal Point Processes," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 42(2), pages 562-579, June.
    3. Cholaquidis, Alejandro & Forzani, Liliana & Llop, Pamela & Moreno, Leonardo, 2017. "On the classification problem for Poisson point processes," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 153(C), pages 1-15.
    4. Camerlenghi, F. & Capasso, V. & Villa, E., 2014. "On the estimation of the mean density of random closed sets," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 125(C), pages 65-88.

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