DiggleGatesPointProcess[μ,ρ,d]
represents a Diggle–Gates point process with constant intensity μ and interaction radius ρ in .


DiggleGatesPointProcess
DiggleGatesPointProcess[μ,ρ,d]
represents a Diggle–Gates point process with constant intensity μ and interaction radius ρ in .
Details


- DiggleGatesPointProcess models point configurations where the points have a softcore decreasing repulsive pairwise interaction for points within radius ρ of each other and that are otherwise uniformly distributed.
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- The Diggle–Gates point process can be defined as a GibbsPointProcess in terms of its intensity μ and the pair potential
or pair interaction
, which are both parametrized by ρ as follows:
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pair potential pair interaction - A point configuration
from a Diggle–Gates point process DiggleGatesPointProcess[μ,ρ,d] in an observation region reg has density function
proportional to
, with respect to PoissonPointProcess[1,d].
- The Papangelou conditional density
for adding a point
to a point configuration
is
.
- DiggleGatesPointProcess allows μ and ρ to be any positive number, and d to be any positive integer.
- DiggleGatesPointProcess is a special case of GibbsPointProcess.
- DiggleGatesPointProcess simplifies to PoissonPointProcess when
.
- Possible Method settings in RandomPointConfiguration for StraussPointProcess are:
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"MCMC" Markov chain Monte Carlo birth and death "Exact" coupling from the past - Possible PointProcessEstimator settings in EstimatedPointProcess for DiggleGatesPointProcess are:
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Automatic automatically choose the parameter estimator "MaximumPseudoLikelihood" maximize the pseudo-likelihood - DiggleGatesPointProcess can be used with such functions as RipleyK and RandomPointConfiguration.
Examples
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Scope (2)
Options (3)
Related Guides
History
Text
Wolfram Research (2020), DiggleGatesPointProcess, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiggleGatesPointProcess.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2020. "DiggleGatesPointProcess." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiggleGatesPointProcess.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2020). DiggleGatesPointProcess. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiggleGatesPointProcess.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_digglegatespointprocess, author="Wolfram Research", title="{DiggleGatesPointProcess}", year="2020", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiggleGatesPointProcess.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_digglegatespointprocess, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={DiggleGatesPointProcess}, year={2020}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/DiggleGatesPointProcess.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}