On the Voronoi estimator for the intensity of an inhomogeneous planar Poisson process

C. D. Barr and F. P. Schoenberg

Biometrika, 2010, vol. 97, issue 4, 977-984

Abstract: The Voronoi estimator may be defined for any location as the inverse of the area of the corresponding Voronoi cell. We investigate the statistical properties of this estimator for the intensity of an inhomogeneous Poisson process, and demonstrate it is approximately unbiased with a gamma sampling distribution. We also introduce the centroidal Voronoi estimator, a simple extension based on spatial regularization of the point pattern. Simulations show the Voronoi estimator has remarkably low bias, while the centroidal Voronoi estimator has slightly more bias but is much less variable. The performance is compared to kernel estimators using two simulated datasets and a dataset consisting of earthquakes within the continental United States. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2010
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