Median-based estimation of the intensity of a spatial point process

DOI10.1007/S10463-015-0536-7zbMATH Open1422.62299arXiv1410.1448OpenAlexW1549469420MaRDI QIDQ520559FDOQ520559

Authors: Jean-François Coeurjolly 

Publication date: 5 April 2017

Published in: Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with a robust estimator of the intensity of a stationary spatial point process. The estimator corresponds to the median of a jittered sample of the number of points, computed from a tessellation of the observation domain. We show that this median-based estimator satisfies a Bahadur representation from which we deduce its consistency and asymptotic normality under mild assumptions on the spatial point process. Through a simulation study, we compare the new estimator with the standard one counting the mean number of points per unit volume. The empirical study verifies the asymptotic properties established and shows that the median-based estimator is more robust to outliers than the standard estimator.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1448

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zbMATH Keywords

Bahadur representationrobust statisticsCox processessample quantiles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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Uses Software

• spatstat

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