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Areas of components of a Voronoi polygon in a homogeneous Poisson process in the plane

Part of: Stochastic processes Geometric probability and stochastic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

A. Hayen  and
M. P. Quine
A. Hayen*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
M. P. Quine*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
*
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
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Abstract

We study the contribution made by three or four points to certain areas associated with a typical polygon in a Voronoi tessellation of a planar Poisson process. We obtain some new results about moments and distributions and give simple proofs of some known results. We also use Robbins' formula to obtain the first three moments of the area of a typical polygon and hence the variance of the area of the polygon covering the origin.

Keywords

PoissonVoronoitessellationdistribution functionmoments

MSC classification

Primary: 60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry
Secondary: 60G55: Point processes
Type
Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 281 - 291
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2002 

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