Year
2012
Authors
KRATZ Marie, ESTRADE A., IRIBARREN I.
Abstract
We consider a stationary and isotropic bi-phasic (pore and solid) medium, draw many lines through it, and see each line as a one-dimensional level-cut process with value 0 or 1 according to whether a regular stationary process X is less or greater than a given level. The intervals corresponding to the points at which X is in a given phase are named chords. We are interested in obtaining information on the chord-length distribution functions. Working with the Palm probability measure and using level crossings techniques, in particular, Rice methods, we can obtain not only the exact analytical formula of the chord-length distribution function but also the joint distribution function of the lengths of two successive chords. Finally, we indicate some concrete applications for the computation of usual stereological parameters.
ESTRADE, A., IRIBARREN, I. et KRATZ, M. (2012). Chord-Length Distribution Functions and Rice Formulae. Application to Random Media. Extremes, 15(3), pp. 333-352.