This paper studies the Candy model, a marked point process introduced by Stoica et al. (2000). We prove Ruelle and local stability, investigate its Markov properties, and discuss how the model may be sampled. Finally, we consider estimation of the model parameters and present some examples.

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van Lieshout, M.-C., & Stoica, R. S. (2001). The Candy model revisited: Markov properties and inference. CWI. Probability, Networks and Algorithms [PNA]. CWI.