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Kth-nearest-neighbour distance in a homogeneous Poisson point process

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For intensity λ in Rd, let Rk​ be the distance to the kth closest point and put ρ=λvd​. Then Rkd​ is the kth arrival time of a rate-ρ Poisson process, so
fRk​​(r)=(k−1)!dρk​rdk−1e−ρrd,r>0.
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