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A second note on recent research in geometrical probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

P. A. P. Moran
P. A. P. Moran*
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Many problems in geometrical probability have been surveyed in the monograph by Professor M. G. Kendall and myself (Kendall and Moran (1963)). In 1966 I published a note in J. Appl. Frob. 3 describing researches which had either been carried out since that book appeared, or which had escaped our notice. The present paper attempts to describe still further investigations classified roughly as to whether they are concerned with points, lines, planes, estimation of area and length, and coverage.

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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , Spring 1969 , pp. 73 - 89
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