Nonparametric estimation of the chord length distribution
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چکیده
The distribution of the length of a typical chord of a stationary random set is an interesting feature of the set’s whole distribution. We give a nonparametric estimator of the chord length distribution and prove its strong consistency. We report on a simulation experiment in which our estimator compared favorably to a reduced sample estimator. Both estimators are illustrated by applying them to an image sample from a yoghurt ferment. We briefly discuss the closely related problem of estimation of the linear contact distribution. We show by a simulation experiment that a transformation of our estimator of the chord length distribution is more efficient than a Kaplan–Meier type estimator of the linear contact distribution. Mathematics Subject Classification: 62M30 (Inference from spatial processes).
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