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In the present chapter we develop formulae for the distributions of the length of visible and invisible (shadowed) segments of the target curve C in the plane. We will focus attention on trapezoidal fields, in which the strip S is bounded by two parallel lines U and W, and the target curve C is a straight line parallel to S. As before, the distances of U, W, and C from O are u, w and r, respectively, where 0 < u < w < r. We will assume that the Poisson field is standard and the distribution of the radius of a random disk centered in S is uniform on (a, b), and 2b < u. The trapezoidal region is a subset of S, C*, bounded by U, W and the rays \({_{x_L^ * }}\) and where \({_{x_U^ * }}\), where x*L and x*U are the rectangular coordinates of points on C specified below. Let \(\bar C\) be an interval on C of interest. The rectangular x-coordinates of the points on \(\bar C\) are bounded by x L and x U , x L > x U , and, as before,
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Zacks, S. (1994). Distributions of Visible and Invisible Segments. In: Stochastic Visibility in Random Fields. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 95. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2690-1_7
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