Tests for independence between marks and points of a marked point process
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1Department of Management Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-6544, USA. yguan@miami.edu
Abstract:
A convenient assumption while modeling a marked point process is that the observations (i.e., marks) and the locations (i.e., points) are independent. We propose new graphical and formal testing approaches to test for this assumption. The proposed graphical procedures are easy to obtain and can be used to diagnose the nature and range of dependence between marks and points. The formal testing procedures require only minimal conditions on marks and thus can be applied to a variety of settings. We illustrate these procedures through a simulation study and an application to some real data.
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