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Activity Number: 203
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract - #303754
Title: On Nonparametric Variance Estimation for Second-Order Statistics of Inhomogeneous Spatial Point Processes
Author(s): Yongtao Guan*+
Companies: Yale University
Address: , , 06473,
Keywords: Intensity Reweighted Stationary Processes ; Second-Order Statistics ; Nonparametric Variance Estimation ; Spatial Point Processes
Abstract:

We introduce new variance estimation procedures for second-order statistics that are computed from a single realization of intensity reweighted stationary spatial point processes. The statistics are defined either on a subset B of the observation window or on the whole window. For the former, we use sub-blocks that have the same size and shape as B as `replicates' of B in order to estimate the target variance. For the latter, we develop a subsampling estimator for a key component in the target variance and estimate its other components by method-of-moment methods. Under some suitable conditions, we prove that the proposed variance estimators are consistent for the target variances in both cases. Simulations and an application to a real data example are used to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methods.


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