Spatial Poisson Processes, and Relatives of Poisson Processes
You should solve these problems with as few calculations as possible, relying on properties of Poisson processes as much as possible.
- In a 2-d spatial Poisson process with intensity
, let represent the nearest neighbor distance, that is, the distance between an arbitrary point and the point of the process closest to it.
- Find an expression for
, for . - Find an expression for the probability density function (pdf) of
. - Find an expression for
.
Starting at 9 a.m., customers arrive at a store according to a nonhomogeneous Poisson process with intensity function
, for , where the time is measured in hours. Find the probability mass function of the number of customers who enter the store by noon.Suppose points are distributed in a 2-d region centered at the origin according to a nonhomogeneous, spatial Poisson process
with intensity function Let be the distance from the origin to the nearest point. Compute .