Ebook: Random Point Processes in Time and Space

This book is a revision of Random Point Processes written by D. L. Snyder and published by John Wiley and Sons in 1975. More emphasis is given to point processes on multidimensional spaces, especially to pro­ cesses in two dimensions. This reflects the tremendous increase that has taken place in the use of point-process models for the description of data from which images of objects of interest are formed in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. A new chapter, Translated Poisson Processes, has been added, and several of the chapters of the fIrst edition have been modifIed to accommodate this new material. Some parts of the fIrst edition have been deleted to make room. Chapter 7 of the fIrst edition, which was about general marked point-processes, has been eliminated, but much of the material appears elsewhere in the new text. With some re­ luctance, we concluded it necessary to eliminate the topic of hypothesis testing for point-process models. Much of the material of the fIrst edition was motivated by the use of point-process models in applications at the Biomedical Computer Labo­ ratory of Washington University, as is evident from the following excerpt from the Preface to the first edition. "It was Jerome R. Cox, Jr. , founder and [1974] director of Washington University's Biomedical Computer Laboratory, who ftrst interested me [D. L. S.

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This senior graduate level textbook is the second revised edition of the textbook "Random Point Processes", written by D.L. Snyder and published in 1975. Its main thrust is point processes on multidimensional spaces, especially to processes in two dimensions. This reflects the tremendous increase that has taken place in the use of point-process models for the description of data from which images of objects of interest are formed in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Research done by the authors at the Biomedical Computer Laboratory at Washington University has led to newly developed models for position emission tomography and electron-microscopic autoradiography. All the applications which the authors have been involved are examples of nonparametric density estimation, which provides the major motivation for new results on constrained estimation techniques. For these applications, the use of unconstrained maximum-likelihood estimation fails because the estimates are not consistent in the statistical sense; they do not converge, with increasing amounts of data, towards the quantity being estimated. Regularization of the estimates is, therefore, absolutely essential, and knowledge of this subject is crucial.

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This senior graduate level textbook is the second revised edition of the textbook "Random Point Processes", written by D.L. Snyder and published in 1975. Its main thrust is point processes on multidimensional spaces, especially to processes in two dimensions. This reflects the tremendous increase that has taken place in the use of point-process models for the description of data from which images of objects of interest are formed in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Research done by the authors at the Biomedical Computer Laboratory at Washington University has led to newly developed models for position emission tomography and electron-microscopic autoradiography. All the applications which the authors have been involved are examples of nonparametric density estimation, which provides the major motivation for new results on constrained estimation techniques. For these applications, the use of unconstrained maximum-likelihood estimation fails because the estimates are not consistent in the statistical sense; they do not converge, with increasing amounts of data, towards the quantity being estimated. Regularization of the estimates is, therefore, absolutely essential, and knowledge of this subject is crucial.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Point and Counting Processes: Introduction and Preliminaries....Pages 1-40
Poisson Processes....Pages 41-112
Translated Poisson-Processes....Pages 113-174
Compound Poisson-Processes....Pages 175-214
Filtered Poisson-Processes....Pages 215-286
Self-Exciting Point Processes....Pages 287-340
Doubly Stochastic Poisson-Processes....Pages 341-465
Back Matter....Pages 467-481

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This senior graduate level textbook is the second revised edition of the textbook "Random Point Processes", written by D.L. Snyder and published in 1975. Its main thrust is point processes on multidimensional spaces, especially to processes in two dimensions. This reflects the tremendous increase that has taken place in the use of point-process models for the description of data from which images of objects of interest are formed in a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. Research done by the authors at the Biomedical Computer Laboratory at Washington University has led to newly developed models for position emission tomography and electron-microscopic autoradiography. All the applications which the authors have been involved are examples of nonparametric density estimation, which provides the major motivation for new results on constrained estimation techniques. For these applications, the use of unconstrained maximum-likelihood estimation fails because the estimates are not consistent in the statistical sense; they do not converge, with increasing amounts of data, towards the quantity being estimated. Regularization of the estimates is, therefore, absolutely essential, and knowledge of this subject is crucial.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Point and Counting Processes: Introduction and Preliminaries....Pages 1-40
Poisson Processes....Pages 41-112
Translated Poisson-Processes....Pages 113-174
Compound Poisson-Processes....Pages 175-214
Filtered Poisson-Processes....Pages 215-286
Self-Exciting Point Processes....Pages 287-340
Doubly Stochastic Poisson-Processes....Pages 341-465
Back Matter....Pages 467-481
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