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Anisotropy and Distance from the Centre. Probabilistic Models and Statistical Analysis

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Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary

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Geometrical stochastics is the branch of mathematics which is concerned with the probabilistic and statistical analysis of randomly generated sets in space. Sets encountered in every day life can often reasonably be interpreted as realizations of random sets. This may for instance be the case for the system of holes in a porous material (Mathéron (1967)) or for the set of sites on an area of ground where individual plantes of a particular species are growing (Pielou (1969, chapter 9 and 10)).

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  1. University of Geneva, Switzerland

    Franz Streit

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  1. Department of Statistics Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, P.O. Box 4, 2600, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia

    Roger E. Miles

  2. Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, Ecole des Mines de Paris, 35 rue St. Honoré, 77305, Fontainebleau, France

    Jean Serra

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Streit, F. (1978). Anisotropy and Distance from the Centre. Probabilistic Models and Statistical Analysis. In: Miles, R.E., Serra, J. (eds) Geometrical Probability and Biological Structures: Buffon’s 200th Anniversary. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93089-8_18

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