The spatial pattern of trees in forests often combines different types of structure (regularity, clustering or randomness) at different scales. Taking species or size into account leads to marked patterns. The question addressed is to model such multi-scale marked patterns using a single...

One of the aims of discriminant analysis is the allocation of unknown entities to populations that are knowna priori. Considerkpopulations. LetXdenote the vector of observations on an experimental unit, whose origin is uncertain. For the general parametric case, a test is proposed to verify the...