A point process is a collection of points randomly located on some mathematical space such as the real line, -dimensional Euclidean space, or more abstract spaces. Sometimes the term point process is not preferred, as historically the word process denoted an evolution of some system in time, so a point process is also called a random point field. There are different interpretations of a point process, such a random counting measure or a random set. Some authors regard a point process and stochastic process as two different objects such that a point process is a random object that arises from or is associated with a stochastic process, though it has been remarked that the difference between point processes and stochastic processes is not clear.
a point process is a collection of points randomly located on some mathematical space such as the real line -dimensional euclidean space or more abstract spaces sometimes the term point process is not preferred as historically the word process denoted an evolution of some system in time so a point process is also called a random point field there are different interpretations of a point process such a random counting measure or a random set some authors regard a point process and stochastic process as two different objects such that a point process is a random object that arises from or is associated with a stochastic process though it has been remarked that the difference between point processes and stochastic processes is not clear