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Random Occurrence of Stripes in a Fabric
Author(s) -
Hawkes Alan G.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2346407
Subject(s) - geology , materials science
S ummary A model is proposed to show how variability in the characteristics of the individual threadlines in a supposedly plain fabric can lead to the appearance of a stripe. The theory of level crossings of a stationary Gaussian process is applied to show that the number of apparent stripes is approximately Poisson distributed with a mean that is a given function of the parameters of the model.