Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 50786, 14 pages
doi:10.1155/JAMSA/2006/50786
    
    
    Free area estimation in a dynamic germ-grain model
         with renewal dropping process
    
    Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bari, Via Orabona 4, Bari 70125, Italy
    
    
    
    Received 20 December 2004; Revised 8 April 2005; Accepted 30 April 2005
    	
    
       
    Copyright © 2006 Marcello  De Giosa. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
     
    
    
   
 
Abstract
A partially observed dynamic germ-grain model with renewal
dropping process is considered. The expected fraction of free area
function is estimated by a product integral-type estimator.
Uniform consistency and asymptotic Gaussianity of the estimator
are proved. Confidence bands and simulation results are also
provided.