Random polytopes in a ball
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 21 (4), 753-762
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3213693
Abstract
The convex hull of n random points chosen independently and uniformly from a d-dimensional ball is a convex polytope. Its expected surface area, its expected mean width and its expected number of facets are explicitly determined.Keywords
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