Residuals and diagnostic plots

This project set out to develop residuals and residual plots for models fitted to spatial point patterns. Our definition of residuals is a natural generalization of the well-known residuals for point processes in time, although it had been thought that no such generalization exists for spatial point processes, because of the lack of a natural ordering in two-dimesional space, and that the analysis of spatial point patterns neccessitated a quite different approach. In cooperation with Adrian J. Baddeley and Martin Hazelton, University of Western Australia, Australia; Rolf Turner, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Supported by MaPhySto and the Danish Natural Science Research Council