Timeline for What is the nearest-neighbor distribution in this picture?
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| Aug 27, 2018 at 21:44 | vote | accept | Tom Solberg | ||
| Aug 27, 2018 at 2:36 | comment | added | Tom Solberg | @BjørnKjos-Hanssen the maximum is actually $\sqrt{2n}$ because I scaled the nearest-neighbor distances by $\sqrt{n}$. The distribution just has a small tail. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 2:12 | answer | added | Anthony Quas | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 0:20 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | If points are distributed according to a Poisson process with intensity 1, the probability that a point has no neighbor in distance $r$ is $e^{-\pi r^2}$. | |
| Aug 27, 2018 at 0:18 | comment | added | Anthony Quas | Square root of exponential? | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 22:48 | comment | added | Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen | What's the maximum, $\sqrt 2$? Looks like $>1.5$ in the figure | |
| Aug 26, 2018 at 22:19 | history | asked | Tom Solberg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |