Re: Bivariate Ripley's K

From: Raphael Pelissier (Raphael.Pelissier@orleans.ird.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 09:03:11 MET DST


<x-flowed iso-8859-1>À (At) 16:43 -0400 5/04/00, Martin BÈland écrivait (wrote) :
>Dear all,
>
>I found an answer to my question (pasted below). Andersen(1992) uses an
>estimator of K1,2(d) that combines the estimators K1,2 and K2,1 into a
>single estimator. This estimator, mentionaed by Lotwick and Silverman
>(1983), is the linear combination:
>
>(n2K12(d) + n1K21(d))/(n1 + n2)
>
>where n1 and n2 are the number of type 1 and type 2 events.
>
>I hope this can help others with the same problem.

The same estimator was adopted by Diggle (1983) p. 107-108 and many
others later.

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