thomasestK(InhomCluster)R Documentation

Minimum contrast estimation for Thomas process.

Description

Minimum contrast estimation based on K-function for Thomas process.

Usage

thomasestK=function(t,K,startpar)

Arguments

t vector of distances for which nonparametric estimate of K is evaluated
K vector of corresponding values of nonparametric estimate of K
startpar starting values (kappa,omega) for parameter estimation where kappa is `mother' and omega is standard deviation for Gaussian kernel.

Details

This function computes minimum contrast estimates of clustering parameters for the Thomas process. The contrast is the integrated squared distance between the fourth root of a nonparametric estimate of K and the fourth root of the theoretical expression for K.

Value

A list with two components minimum and Ktheoret. The first components is as provided by the output of optim and the estimate is given by minimum$par. The second component is the fitted theoretical K function evaluated at t.

Author(s)

Rasmus Waagepetersen rw@math.aau.dk http://www.math.aau.dk/~rw

References

Waagepetersen, R. (2006) An estimation function approach to inference for inhomogeneous Neyman-Scott processes, submitted.

See Also

optim, inhom.thomas.asympcov,


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