\name{Linhom}
\alias{Linhom}
\title{L-function}
\description{
  Calculates an estimate of the inhomogeneous version of
  the \eqn{L}-function (Besag's transformation of Ripley's \eqn{K}-function)
  for a spatial point pattern.
}
\usage{
  Linhom(...)
}
\arguments{
  \item{\dots}{
    Arguments passed to \code{\link{Kinhom}}
    to estimate the inhomogeneous K-function.
  }
}
\details{
  This command computes an estimate of the inhomogeneous version of
  the \eqn{L}-function for a spatial point pattern

  The original \eqn{L}-function is a transformation
  (proposed by Besag) of Ripley's \eqn{K}-function,
  \deqn{L(r) = \sqrt{\frac{K(r)}{\pi}}}{L(r) = sqrt(K(r)/pi)}
  where \eqn{K(r)} is the Ripley \eqn{K}-function of a spatially homogeneous
  point pattern, estimated by \code{\link{Kest}}.

  The inhomogeneous \eqn{L}-function is the corresponding transformation
  of the inhomogeneous \eqn{K}-function, estimated by \code{\link{Kinhom}}.
  It is appropriate when the point pattern clearly does not have a
  homogeneous intensity of points. It was proposed by
  Baddeley, \ifelse{latex}{\out{M\o ller}}{Moller} and Waagepetersen (2000).

  The command \code{Linhom} first calls
  \code{\link{Kinhom}} to compute the estimate of the inhomogeneous K-function,
  and then applies the square root transformation.

  For a Poisson point pattern (homogeneous or inhomogeneous),
  the theoretical value of the inhomogeneous \eqn{L}-function is \eqn{L(r) = r}.
  The square root also has the effect of stabilising
  the variance of the estimator, so that \eqn{L} is more appropriate
  for use in simulation envelopes and hypothesis tests.
}

\value{
  An object of class \code{"fv"}, see \code{\link{fv.object}},
  which can be plotted directly using \code{\link{plot.fv}}.

  Essentially a data frame containing columns
  \item{r}{the vector of values of the argument \eqn{r} 
    at which the function \eqn{L} has been  estimated
  }
  \item{theo}{the theoretical value \eqn{L(r) = r}
    for a stationary Poisson process
  }
  together with columns named 
  \code{"border"}, \code{"bord.modif"},
  \code{"iso"} and/or \code{"trans"},
  according to the selected edge corrections. These columns contain
  estimates of the function \eqn{L(r)} obtained by the edge corrections
  named.
}
\references{
  Baddeley, A., \ifelse{latex}{\out{M\o ller}}{Moller}, J. and Waagepetersen, R. (2000)
  Non- and semiparametric estimation of interaction in
  inhomogeneous point patterns.
  \emph{Statistica Neerlandica} \bold{54}, 329--350.
}
\seealso{
  \code{\link{Kest}},
  \code{\link{Lest}},
  \code{\link{Kinhom}},
  \code{\link{pcf}}
}
\examples{
 data(japanesepines)
 X <- japanesepines
 L <- Linhom(X, sigma=0.1)
 plot(L, main="Inhomogeneous L function for Japanese Pines")
}
\author{Adrian Baddeley \email{Adrian.Baddeley@curtin.edu.au}
  
  
  and Rolf Turner \email{r.turner@auckland.ac.nz}
  
}
\keyword{spatial}
\keyword{nonparametric}