This paper introduces a three-dimensional object point process--the Bisous model--that can be used as a prior for three-dimensional spatial pattern analysis. Maximization of likelihood or penalized-likelihood functions based on this model requires global optimization techniques, such as the...

We investigate the connections between shot noise weighted and bivariate Gibbs point processes.

After establishing exporting in its context as a strategic alternative in corporate planning, and explaining its apparent appropriateness given the anticipated decline in the domestic market and the supposed technological lead held by British offshore suppliers, a wide range of factors...

This paper examines the institutional methods a brutal dictatorship uses to deal with perceived increases in the number of political enemies despite the fact that its political police and citizen loyalty are fixed in the short run. It explains how "simplified methods" of troika justice,...