Points of the marked Poisson process are generated in continuous time, using the following procedure:
First, a trajectory of the underlying Poisson process is generated. Then, the mark series is generated
using a d-state Markov chain. The mark series takes values in 1,2,...,d and determines in which of the d processes
the points occur.
The marginal processes defined by the marks are not Poisson unless the generated marks are
independent observations, see Isham (1980).
A transition matrix \(P = (p_{ij})\) with equal rows leads to \(d\) independent point processes, and the more
similar the rows of P, the less dependent the resulting processes. The spectral gap (SpecGap
)
measures the dependence between the generated processes, see Abaurrea et al. (2014).
Tha marginal processes of the marked process can be optionally plotted using dplot=TRUE
.