A Central Limit Theorem for Spatial Observations

István Fazekas; Zsolt Karácsony; Renáta Vas

doi:10.17713/ajs.v41i3.176

A Central Limit Theorem for Spatial Observations

Authors

István Fazekas Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Zsolt Karácsony Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Renáta Vas Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17713/ajs.v41i3.176

Abstract

The Central Limit Theorem is proved for m-dependent random fields. The random field is observed in a sequence of irregular domains. The sequence of domains is increasing and at the same time the locations of the observations become more and more dense in the domains.

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2016-02-24

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Vol. 41 No. 3 (2012)

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