Spatial cluster point processes related to Poisson–Voronoi tessellations

Residuals for spatial point processes based on Voronoi tessellations

A residual analysis method for spatial point processes is proposed, where differences between the modeled conditional intensity and the observed number of points are assessed over the Voronoi cells generated by the observations. The resulting residuals appear to be substantially less skewed and hence more stable, particularly for point processes with conditional intensities close to zero, compa...

Spatial Point Processes

Property (iv) is called boundedly finite. So, when we use (iv) instead of (iii), we are interested in simple, boundedly finite spatial point processes with no fixed atoms. When we use (iii), the domain A can be an arbitrary set. When we use (iv), the domain A must have some notion of boundedness. This is no problem when A is a subset of Rd for some d. We just use the usual notion of boundedness...

Point processes , spatial – temporal

Transforming spatial point processes into Poisson processes

In 1986, Merzbach and Nualart demonstrated a method of transforming a two-parameter point process into a planar Poisson process of unit rate, using random stopping sets. Merzbach and Nualart's theorem applies only to a special class of point processes, since it requires two restrictive conditions: the (F4) condition of conditional independence and the convexity of the 1-compensator. The (F4) co...

Thinning spatial point processes into Poisson processes

This paper describes methods for randomly thinning certain classes of spatial point processes. In the case of a Markov point process, the proposed method involves a dependent thinning of a spatial birth-and-death process, where clans of ancestors associated with the original points are identified, and where one simulates backwards and forwards in order to obtain the thinned process. In the case...