This function computes an approximation to the \(K\) function
or the pair correlation function of a Gibbs point process.
The functions Kmodel
and pcfmodel
are generic.
The functions documented here are the methods for the class
"ppm"
.
The approximation is only available for stationary
pairwise-interaction models.
It uses the second order Poisson-saddlepoint approximation
(Baddeley and Nair, 2012b) which is a combination of
the Poisson-Boltzmann-Emden and Percus-Yevick approximations.
The return value is a function
in the R language,
which takes one argument r
.
Evaluation of this function, on a numeric vector r
,
yields values of the desired \(K\) function or pair correlation
function at these distance values.