Thinning spatial point processes into Poisson processes

Jesper Møller, Frederic Paik Schoenberg

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Abstract

In this paper we describe methods for randomly thinning certain classes of spatial point processes. In the case of a Markov point process, the proposed method involves a dependent thinning of a spatial birth-and-death process, where clans of ancestors associated with the original points are identified, and where we simulate backwards and forwards in order to obtain the thinned process. In the case of a Cox process, a simple independent thinning technique is proposed. In both cases, the thinning results in a Poisson process if and only if the true Papangelou conditional intensity is used, and, thus, can be used as a graphical exploratory tool for inspecting the goodness-of-fit of a spatial point process model. Several examples, including clustered and inhibitive point processes, are considered.
Original languageEnglish
JournalAdvances in Applied Probability
Volume42
Issue number2
Pages (from-to)347-358
Number of pages12
ISSN0001-8678
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2010

Keywords

  • area-interaction point process
  • Cox process
  • dependent and independent thinning
  • Markov point process
  • Papangelou conditional intensity
  • Poisson process
  • Thomas process

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