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We investigate the behaviour of Poisson point processes in the neighbourhood of the boundary ∂K of a convex body K in \({\mathbb{R}}\) ,d ≥ 2. Making use of the geometry of K, we show various limit results as the intensity of the Poisson process increases and the neighbourhood shrinks to ∂K. As we shall see, the limit processes live on a cylinder generated by the normal bundle of K and have intensity measures expressed in terms of the support measures of K. We apply our limit results to a spatial version of the classical change-point problem, in which random point patterns are considered which have different distributions inside and outside a fixed, but unknown convex body K.
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Khmaladze, E., Weil, W. Local empirical processes near boundaries of convex bodies. Ann Inst Stat Math 60, 813–842 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10463-007-0123-7
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