Stilb (unit) Stilb (unit) The stilb (sb) is the CGS unit of luminance for objects that are not self-luminous. It is equal to one candela per square centimeter or 10 nits (candelas per square meter). The name was coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920. It comes from the Greek word "stilbein" meaning "to glitter". It was in common use in Europe up to World War I. In North America self-explanatory terms such as candle per square inch and candle per square meter were more common. The unit has since largely been replaced by the SI unit: candela per square
Random measure are measurable, so they are random variables. The distribution of a random measure is uniquely determinded by the distributions of for all continuous functions with compact support formula_41 on formula_57. For a fixed semiring formula_58 that generates formula_2 in the sense that formula_60, the distribution of a random measure is also uniquely determined by the integral over all positive simple formula_61-measurable functions formula_41. A measure generally might be decomposed as: Here formula_64 is a diffuse measure without atoms, while formula_65 is a purely atomic measure. A random measure of the form: where formula_67 is the Dirac measure, and formula_68 are