Gaussian limits for generalized spacings

DOI10.1214/08-AAP537zbMath1159.60315arXiv0804.4123MaRDI QIDQ1009484

Mathew D. Penrose, Yu. Baryshnikov, Joseph E. Yukich

Publication date: 2 April 2009

Published in: The Annals of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.4123

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremslog-likelihoodinformation gain\(\phi \)-divergencelogarithmic spacingsspacing statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05)

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