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On a point process with independent locations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Valerie Isham*
Affiliation:
Imperial College, London

Abstract

A class of point processes is considered, in which the locations of the points are independent random variables. In particular some properties of the process in which the distribution function of the position of the nth event is the n-fold convolution of some distribution function F, are investigated. It is shown that, under fairly general conditions, the process remote from the origin will be asymptotically Poisson. It is also shown that the variance of the number of events in the interval (0, t] is . Some generalisations are discussed.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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