Markov properties of cluster processes
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- stochastic geometry-and-statistical-applications
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Advances in Applied Probability
- Vol. 28 (02) , 346-355
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001867800048503
Abstract
We show that a Poisson cluster point process is a nearest-neighbour Markov point process [2] if the clusters have uniformly bounded diameter. It is typically not a finite-range Markov point process in the sense of Ripley and Kelly [12]. Furthermore, when the parent Poisson process is replaced by a Markov or nearest-neighbour Markov point process, the resulting cluster process is also nearest-neighbour Markov, provided all clusters are non-empty. In particular, the nearest-neighbour Markov property is preserved when points of the process are independently randomly translated, but not when they are randomly thinned.Keywords
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